USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What action did William McIntosh take that resulted in the removal of the Creek Nation from Georgia? McIntosh agreed to sell the Creek’s remaining land to the United States by signing the 2nd Treaty of Indian Springs. McIntosh decided to buy two plantations and own hundreds of slaves.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1825 McIntosh negotiated and signed the Treaty of Indian Springs, signing away all Creek lands in Georgia and thereby defying most of the reforms that he had encouraged and the laws that he had helped write.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many were rounded up and held at Fort Mitchell to await transportation out. 2, 500 Creeks, including several hundred chained warriors, were marched on foot to Montgomery and onto barges which were pushed down the Alabama River, beginning their forced removal to a new homeland in Indian Territory.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Indian Springs, also known as the Second Treaty of Indian Springs, was an agreement between the federal government and a minority of Creek Indians, led by William McIntosh, which sold the remaining Creek land in Georgia for $200, 000.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1825, the Coweta headman William McIntosh signed the Treaty of Indian Springs which ceded all remaining Creek land in Georgia and Page 5 v a large portion of Creek land in Alabama to the federal government in exchange for a large sum of money and territory in present-day Oklahoma.