USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Creek chief who signed a treaty ceding all Creek lands to the U.S., and who was subsequently assassinated by angry Creeks, was
A
Gov. Troup
B
Alexander McGillivray
C
William McIntosh
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The marker reads: “Here on February 12, 1825, William McIntosh, a friendly chief of the Creek Indians, signed the Treaty by which all lands west of the Flint River were ceded to the State of Georgia. For this, he was murdered by a band of Creeks who were opposed to the treaty.

Detailed explanation-2: -On February 12, 1825, Chief McIntosh signed a treaty at Indian Springs selling the remaining Creek land in Georgia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Opothleyahola led the Upper Creeks in their resistance to removal to the West, but eventually he came to see it as inevitable. By 1832, after a large number of the Lower Creeks had removed voluntarily, he was the Creek Nation’s acknowledged leader.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Muscogee and the United States had signed the First Treaty of Indian Springs in 1821, under which the former ceded their territory east of the Flint River to Georgia. In exchange, the federal government of the United States paid them $200, 000 in installments and assumed their debts to the Georgian people.

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