The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was an executive order issued by Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears was an event that occurred during the act. The Indian Removal Act was the forced relocation of Native Americans from their homelands westward into a designated Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma. Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River were the groups targeted by the act. The Trail of Tears was the event during the Indian Removal Act in which the United States military intervened to enforce the Indian Removal Act by forcing Native Americans remaining in their homelands to march into Indian Territory . There were stakeholders who had opposing views on the morality of the Indian Removal Act, regardless of whether they were directly or indirectly affected by it. Violent conflicts including wars and skirmishes between Native Americans and U.S. settlers, peace treaties made after the Indian Wars, and court cases held by Native Americans against the United States were events that occurred in the past that influenced President Andrew Jackson to initiate the Indian Removal Act. The United States and Native Americans fought in several regional “Indian Wars” when there were conflicts over land distribution and settlement (Kappler). The Native Americans lost all of these Indian wars and had to follow the claims established in the peace treaties they made. The most common terms established in peace treaties required that Native Americans give up some of their land so that U.S. settlers could develop (Kappler). Other terms established in the treaties included allowing Native Americans to enter the territories they surrendered as long as they did not resettle the land; the terms gave Native Americans the right... to the center of the map... their land. There were treaties that gave them the right to keep portions of land they owned before the Indian Wars and they had the right to remove interlopers. Then they were treated as aliens after the Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia court case because the Cherokee called themselves a nation. The Indian Removal Act was caused by a series of events starting with the Indian Wars, then the treaties that resolved them, and then the court cases that created the mentality of seeing Native Americans as separate nations. President Andrew Jackson made all of these events happen in a short period of time and made the decision to enact and execute the Indian Removal Act which led to the Trail of Tears, where many Native Americans died during what was supposed to be a resolution to the conflict. diplomatic issues between the United States and Native American tribes.