USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Forces under Gen. Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida, attacked several key locations, and pushed the Seminoles farther south into Florida. St. Marks, Fla., April 1818–Two Seminole chiefs, or micos are captured by Jackson’s forces who used the ruse of flying the British flag to lure the Indians to them.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1830 Pres. Andrew Jackson, who had fought in the First Seminole War, signed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the resettlement of all Native American peoples to lands west of the Mississippi River. Gadsden then negotiated the Treaty of Payne’s Landing (1832) with various Seminole leaders.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Payne’s Landing (Treaty with the Seminole, 1832) was an agreement signed on 9 May 1832 between the government of the United States and several chiefs of the Seminole Indians in the Territory of Florida, before it acquired statehood.