Does the Indian Removal Act describe the removal of Native Americans as a voluntary action by involuntary/by force? How do you know? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.
From the earliest days of colonial contact, relations between white European settlers and indigenous people in the Americas were plagued by conflict over land and its natural resources. John C. Calhoun, who served as Secretary of War under President James Monroe, was the first to design a plan for removing Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River, but the Georgia delegation in the House of Representatives sunk the bill.
