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Events on Friday 28 May 1830 1
1830Indian Removal Act signed into lawUS law authorizes forced relocation of Native American nationsPresident Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act on 28 May 1830, authorizing the federal government to negotiate removal treaties exchanging Native American land in the Southeast for territory west of the Mississippi. The law led to the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole people over the following decade. It set the legal basis for what became known as the Trail of Tears.