Before becoming president, Jackson had been a key supporter of the Indian removal. In 1814, he had instructed the U.S. military army, which trounced a portion of the Creek during the Creek War of 1813-1814. After the unfortunate downfall, the Creek Nation lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama. In 1815 and also in 1818, Jackson marched against the Seminole Indians in the Spanish seized part of Florida, to basically discipline them for their routine sheltering of criminal slaves. Furthermore, the attack in 1818, the Spanish government finally recognized that they could not protect Florida against the United States. The next year after that, Spain decided to sell Florida to the United States. In addition to being…show more content… Trusting their gut that they would be able to retain control over part of their territory, by abandoning some of the land and to guard themselves from persecution by the white colonizers. Moreover, these treaties provided the Federal Government complete power over three-quarters of Alabama and Florida, and certain parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and North Carolina. This so called controlled Indian migration caused only a small portion of Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians really relocating westward. Furthermore, others fought the relocation rule and the Creek and Seminoles pursued a war to fight for their territory. Even though white colonizers made their way to the South, their objections and complaints became louder and louder. Therefore, this started to force the Federal Government to obtain even more Indian lands, so that they could increase their farms to grow cotton and to completely get rid of the Indians they felt were standing in the way of improvement. Therefore, the tribes decided to make things worse when they found out that gold was found in Georgia and the burden on the government
