Question 1 • CA-Ethnic Studies
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the federal government to arrange the relocation of Indigenous nations living east of the Mississippi River to lands farther west, commonly called Indian Territory. It did not declare that every Indigenous person had to move, but choice C best captures the act’s purpose. The act also did not automatically cancel all earlier treaties, as choice D claims.
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