View Indian Removal Act Pictures PNG. The indian removal act was a law passed in 1830 by congress to remove native american tribes in the southeast united states from their land to federal land west of the mississippi, in oklahoma. In 1830, president andrew jackson instituted the indian removal act, which required the native americans to be moved west of the mississippi river.
In 1813, andrew jackson and his wife, rachel, adopted an orphaned muscogee (creek) boy named lyncoya, who died at age 16 of tuberculosis, months before jackson was elected president 2.
The indian removal act was passed in 1930 but plans for this 'forced relocation' began in the early 1800s. The indian removal act was a law passed by the united states congress in 1830, and signed into law by president andrew jackson. Government indian policy between the war of 1812 and the middle of the nineteenth century. The indian removal act allowed jackson to make deals with the native americans to get them to move west.