We’re on our 4th state and so far, all the names of the states can be traced back to the Native Americans (you know the people who used to roam on this great land until the Europeans came and…). So what happened to the Native Americans? I know the history ain’t pretty but we weren’t sure exactly what happened. We consulted with the all-knowing Google and we found out about the Indian Removal Act (1830). Apparently around early 19th century, Americans were hungry for land, and the president at the time, Andrew Jackson, did what any good American President would do - he past a law and ethnically cleansed the Native American tribes by ordering them to move west. In total, the Jackson administration moved thousands of Native Americans and opening up 25 million acres of lands to white settlement and to slavery. And for that achievement, Andrew Jackson gets to have his pretty face on our twenty dollar bill.
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