Between the 1830 Indian Removal Act and 1850, the U.S. government used forced treaties and/or U.S. Army action to move about 100,000 American Indians living east of the Mississippi River, westward to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
Georgians were pleased that slavery would be protected and there would be a bicameral legislature. The delegation from Georgia worked to make both larger and smaller states happy with their representation and they worked to have slavery protected in the Constitution.
