Question 2 Matiple Choice Worth 5 points) Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the teed
May 28, 1830
Chapter CXLVIII
An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any
territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian file has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a
suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there, and to cause each of said districts to be so described
natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other
What does the phrase Indian file has been extinguished describe in the context of the document?
Land the Native Americans had been granted
Land that was taken away from Native Americans
Land that was not valuable to the Native Americans
Land that had been organized by the government