What was the purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1830? What was the rationale given in 1830 for this Act? What were the short and long term results of this Act? Was the Indian Removal Act justified? Why or Why not? Given the impact of the Indian Removal Act on Native Americans are reparations (definition: compensation for loss suffered or wrong-doing, injustice done) appropriate today for the descendants of those displaced native peoples? Why or why not?
