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Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-3156. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
President Lincoln signed into law two Confiscation Acts, the first on August 6, 1861, and the second on July 17, 1862, that safeguarded fugitive slaves from the Confederacy that came over into Union lines and gave them indirect emancipation contingent if their masters continued insurrection against the United States.