At the point when Andrew Jackson progressed toward becoming president, he needed to evacuate the Indian nation. President Andrew Jackson signed a law, The Indian Removal Act that followed up on May 28, 1830. Jackson had dissented and treated Indian tribes as though they were outside countries. The president Andrew Jackson did not hate Indians as a race, he believed the Indian civilization progress was lower than whites. The government wanted to move the Indians from their tribal lands. The act placed the Indians west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their land. The Cherokees, Chickasaws, Creeks still owned large segments of land in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Some of the tribes left peacefully, but many did not want