The bill was controversial beause it resulted in the geneocide of the American Indian. At the time southern and norhtern land owners alike. The bill called for voluntary removal of Amerian Indians from their lands, however this is not how it happened. Often Amerrican Indians were forced off of their ancestorial lands through pressure and fource. American Indians were eventually forced to move as far as from Northern Georgia to Oklahoma, reuslting in many Indians dying of disease, starvation and due to exposure to the elements along the way.
