By the close of Jackson’s eight years in office approximately 45,690 Indians had been relocated beyond the Mississippi River. According to the Indian Office, only about 9,000 Indians, mostly in the Old Northwest and New York, were without treaty stipulations requiring their removal when Jackson left office. The operation, of course, provided an empire. Jackson acquired for the United States approximately 100 million acres of land in exchange for about $68 million and 32 million acres of western land.
