Tailyr Irvine. On May 28, 1830, Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This act forced nearly 100,000 Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral homelands east of the ...

This Day in History. On this day in 1830, 195 years ago, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Paul Chaat Smith, Associate Curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, talked about the events leading to the passage of the Indian ...