Enacted during the time of President Andrew Jackson, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was designed to ensure that negotiations between the President and the Native American tribes can take place for their relocation.
Practically, the law was used to forcibly removed a large number of Native Americans from their natural home and live in another part of the country.
The government justified this as a way to create segregation and provide more space for the expanding American colonies.
Today, the Act is remembered as a systematic genocide against a people based on their race and religion. Many Americans did not object to Christian converts and people who adopted local customs.
However, Native Americans who kept on living with their old traditions and religions were labelled as Savages and very few people had sympathy for them. Hence, it can be clearly called religious and racial discrimination.
