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.
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
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Southeastern Alabama
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.