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President Andrew Jackson continues illegally initiating the forced removal of Native peoples.

Date: 1832

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This includes the massacre of the Seminole, Choctaw, and Sauk peoples (Battle of Bad Axe) in Wisconsin, Georgia's illegal seizure of Cherokee lands, and the Muscogee Creek people being forced out of Alabama.