When Congress passed the Indian Removal Act." Some of the saddest manifestations of this policy, implemented during Andrew Jackson's presidency (1829-1837). was the decimation and expulsion of the affiliated Sac and the fox tribes from the Upper Mississippi region (Black Hawk war of 1832).the forcible relocation of the Creek , Choctaw , chickasaw and Cherokee nations from the old southwest to indian Territory (Trail Tears, 1838-1839) and the similar expulsion of the Seminole Indians from Florida to future oklahoma (Second Seminole War, 1835-1843 ) The process of forcible removal to reservations was repeated countless times from the1820s through the 1880s.