One of the most fascinating things about studying this period of American history is learning about how many awful things spoken about as inevitable events, like this and even manifest destiny more broadly, were actually hotly politically contested and often only barely won.
๐ Indian Removal Act
๐ United States ๐บ๐ธ
๐๏ธ May 26, 1830
๐๏ธ House of Representatives
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101 For
โ 97 Against
๐ชถ The mass displacement of Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to present-day Oklahoma is enacted
๐ญ This deadly march became known as the Trail of Tears