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The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves . . . It will relieve the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, and enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.
—Andrew Jackson, Message to Congress, December 1830
Based upon the comments of President Andrew Jackson, what was the primary purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

to secure land in southern states for white settlement

B to eliminate the possibility of Native Americans uniting with the French

to relocate tribes to more prosperous land settlements in the West

to place tribes under the control of southern states