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Andy Jackson introduces what would become the Indian Removal Act & the resulting 'Trail of Tears'...
Andy Jackson introduces what would become the Indian Removal Act & the resulting 'Trail of Tears'...
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December 11, 1829
RHODE ISLAND AMERICAN STATESMAN, Providence, Dec. 11, 1829
* President Andrew Jackson
* State of the Union Address
* Indian Removal Act
All of page 2 & some of pg. 2 are taken up with the: "President's Message", being his annual state-of-the-union address to the nation. It is signed by him in type at its conclusion: Andrew Jackson. In it he announces his controversial plan concerning the Native Americans which would be spelled out in the Indian Removal Act of 1830: "...I suggest...the propriety of setting apart an ample district west of the Mississippi, & without the limits of any state...to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it...This emigration should be voluntary; for it would be as cruel as unjust to compel the aborigines to abandon the graves of their fathers..." and much more. This would initiate what would be known as the Trail of Tears (see hyperlinks).
Four pages, rejoined at the spine, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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