Removal Act
- The federal government had worked steadily to negotiate treaties with eh southern Indians that would remove them to the West and open their lands of white settlement
- Act passed in 1830 to relocate the natives to the west
- Southern natives felt pressure from both the state and federal governments
- In Georgia, the Cherokee tried to oppose this through the Cherokee nation v. Georia and Wocester v. Georgia but failed.
- Jackson ignored the court decison and pushed the removal act