Do Now 10/17
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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?
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?