AL Studies Weekly The Creek War Week 6

AL Studies Weekly The Creek War Week 6

Federal Road • The natives gave the American government permission to run a little, teeny horse trail across their land, but instead a huge frontier super-highway called the Federal Road was cut right through American Indian Country.

Mystic Warrior • Chief Tecumseh was also called the mystic warrior. • He led the natives of Alabama to a war that ruined the Creek nation. • During the war, the settlers called the warlike Creeks the Red Sticks. • Tecumseh was a powerful Shawnee leader who did his best to unite all of the American Indians in North America against the settlers. • Chief Tecumseh was killed in battle while leading his forces north into Canada

Chief Pushmataha • A Choctaw chief who thought war with the settlers would ruin the Choctaw Tribe. He wanted to learn to live in peace with his white neighbors

The First Shots of the Creek War • The first shots of the Creek Indian War were fired at a place called Burnt Corn Creek. • The settlers attacked first, but by the end of the day the natives had their first victory.

Fort Mims Massacre • Daniel Beasley was the commander of Fort Mims. • The Creeks were led by Chief Red Eagle’s American name was William Weatherford. • Chief Red Eagle ordered his men not to kill women and children. His men did not listen. At the end of the day 100 Creeks, and more than 250 settlers were dead.

Alabama Regions • • Southeastern Alabama is also known as the Wiregrass Region. Towns here were built later than anywhere else in the state (in the middle and late 1800’s) Tons of cotton were shipped out of Eufaula on the Chattahoochee River. In 1915, a trillion boll weevils came up from Mexico and destroyed the cotton crop.

The Creek Nation Ruined • Andrew Jackson and his Tennessee soldiers attacked the Creek village from above. • The rest of his men, led by General John Coffee swam the river and attacked from below. • This was more than the creeks could bear. The war was finally over on March 27, 1814.

Andrew Jackson • He rebuilt the old Fort Toulouse, calling it Fort Jackson. • He waited for the tribal chiefs to come and surrender. • He made them sign a treaty called the Treaty of Fort Jackson. This treaty required the Creeks to give up a great deal of their land to the U. S. making Jackson a National hero.