<span>trading city on the Niger River where Africans traded gold, salt, cloth, books, slaves, shells, & metals</span>
<span>January 30, 1933 – May 8, 1945</span>
Government and the feelings of our people.” Yet, only fourteen months later, Jackson prompted Congress to pass the Removal Act, a bill that forced Native Americans to leave the United States and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
States had emerged as an uncontested authority in Europe.