Creek land cessions led inevitably to their complete removal a decade later.
By means of an illegal treaty which
was ultimately rejected by President John Quincy Adams, the Creeks
ceded all lands in Georgia and Alabama for a $25,000 bribe to their
chief, William McIntosh, a mixed-blood who was killed by his own
people for his treachery.
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