The eliminations, led under Presidents Andrew
Jackson and Martin
Van Buren, shadowed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Trail
of Tears was a sequence of involuntary eliminations of Native American nations
from their ancestral native land in the Southeastern United States to a zone
west of the Mississippi River that had been selected as
Indian Territory. The forced rearrangements were conceded out by numerous
government authorities following the way of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
