I believe that the driving force behind the Indian removal act was the Americans greed for land, which in turn would be used to grow and produce cotton. America at the time was the largest producer of Cotton in the world as it produced “400 million produced 400 million pounds of cotton per year” (Wallace PG 189) which “accounted for two thirds of all cotton produced for export in the world” (Wallace PG 189). Even though America was producing tremendous amount of cotton per year, the world’s demand for it wasn’t deteriorating making profit extremely profitable. On average cotton was produced for 10 cents a pound and on average sold for 16 cents a pound with peak prices of 40 cents a pound. This mean that a farmer with a “500 acre cotton plantation
