Historical Document Andrew Jackson Alabama 1834 Indian Lands Trail of Tears

Description

[ ANDREW
JACKSON ]
1834
( Result of the "Trail of Tears" ]
Historical vellum document signed by Pres. Andrew Jackson's Secretary.  Official land office paper seal attached on the lower left. No odors, document was folded for easy storage.  A few old age holes here and there.  The name "Andrew Jackson" in ink where the President would actually had signed the document.
Land given to a deserving citizen the land that once belonged to the Indians that were
forcibly
removed to west of the Mississippi River. The
Tombigbee
Association. At
Demopolis
, Alabama. 1834.  Measures about 10" x 16"
.
"....The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern (including Mid-Atlantic) Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. The act has been referred to as a unitary act of systematic genocide, because it discriminated against an ethnic group in so far as to make certain the death of vast numbers of its population. The Act was signed by Andrew Jackson and it was strongly enforced under his administration and that of Martin Van Buren, which extended until 1841.
The Act was strongly supported by southern and northwestern populations, but was opposed by native tribes and the Whig Party. The Cherokee worked together to stop this relocation, but were unsuccessful; they were eventually forcibly removed by the United States government in a march to the west that later became known as the Trail of Tears...."~~Wikipedia