Which statement best describes the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the U.S. government to move Indigenous nations from their homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. In practice, removal was often forced, as in the Cherokee people’s Trail of Tears. The act did not itself create a tribal constitution or auction Cherokee land to prospectors, so “forcibly relocated eastern Indigenous people to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River” is the best description.

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