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Explanation:
The complete question is:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and move there."
- Indian Removal Act, 1830
Who would have been MOST LIKELY to view the above passage of this legislation as a negative situation?
The answer is indeed C) John Ross and the Cherokee Indians as they would have been relocated by the President, Thomas Jefferson to the west of Mississippi. They fought the law all the way to the US Supreme Court and the Court agreed with their position.
