Which act, proposed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, aimed to move Native tribes west of the Mississippi River?

• A. Emancipation Proclamation
• B. Indian Removal Act
• C. Missouri Compromise
• D. Homestead Act

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is a government policy aimed at moving Native American tribes from their eastern homelands to lands west of the Mississippi to clear land for white settlers. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, supported by President Andrew Jackson, gave the federal government power to negotiate removal treaties and to fund the relocation of tribes. This policy set the stage for forced relocations, including the infamous journeys known as the Trail of Tears, and shows how expansionist goals often overrode Native sovereignty. The other options don’t fit: emancipation relates to freeing enslaved people, the Missouri Compromise addressed the balance of free and slave states in new territories in 1820, and the Homestead Act came later (in 1862) to promote settler land ownership.