Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.”
Answer:Van Buren, who served as secretary of state during Andrew Jackson’s first term in office and vice president during Jackson’s second term, pledged to continue enforcing policies put into place by his predecessor. That included the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which granted the president authority to negotiate treaties that swapped Indian lands east of the Mississippi River for reservations in the West.
Growing Indian nationalism. India had always been made up of a collection of princely states, many of which were rivals. The Second World War. The INC and Home Rule. Gandhi and Quit India Movement.
