This policy was the basis for a constitutional amendment drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 but never proposed to Congress. One agreement for implementing this policy was negotiated by John Eaton and John Coffee; that was the Treaty of Pontotoc. Another attempt to implement this policy took place w
This policy was the basis for a constitutional amendment drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 but never proposed to Congress. One agreement for implementing this policy was negotiated by John Eaton and John Coffee; that was the Treaty of Pontotoc. Another attempt to implement this policy took place when one party to an 1825 treaty executed its signer, William (*) McIntosh, which the other party to that treaty took to be an abrogation of it. Perhaps the most famous instantiation of this policy came via an 1830 piece of legislation which provided for the government's authority to sign the Treaty of New Echota and force a certain population to take the Trail of Tears. For 10 points, identify this US government policy of relocating Native Americans to western territories.
This policy was the basis for a constitutional amendment drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 but never proposed to Congress.
Indian removal