This historic letter signed by President Andrew Jackson—written to Native American tribes in 1829 and requesting them to vacate the American South and move west—initiated the U.S. Government’s “Indian Removal Policy” and the Trail of Tears.
For years this document was on display in the permanent exhibition at the National Constitution Center. They wrote: “This letter signed by President Andrew Jackson just seven months after he took office initiated the government’s policy of removing Indian tribes from their native lands in the Southeast in order to make way for white settlement.”
