CREEK REMOVAL
ith the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson, ending the Creek War, Andrew Jackson imposed a punitive land cession on the Creeks of some 22 million acres—more than half of all their lands in Alabama and southwest Georgia. William McIntosh and other allied Lower Creeks argued strongly against the treaty terms, which claimed land from friend and foe alike, but Jackson would not relent. He not only wanted to punish the Creeks by opening their
