1. The Oppression of American Indians
... were bribed, coerced, or forced to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River, leading to incidents such as the Trail of Tears in the late 1830's. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American tribes following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed by Andrew Jackson. This ... Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy as the model for the U.S. Constitution, supported Indian Removal as early as 1802," (A Brief History of the Trail of Tears). In other words, the Indian Removal Act was a great contribution to the genocide of American Indians, as 4,000 of them died fro...
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