His campaign against the Creeks established his military reputation and launched his political career.

As President, he would implement the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which accomplished systematically what the treaty system had accomplished piecemeal: the forced removal of eastern Native peoples from their homelands.

Jackson was, in a specific sense, the fulfillment of everything Tecumseh had been fighting against.

The man who implemented comprehensive, legally mandated removal was the man who had learned his methods fighting against the southern wing of the confederacy that Tecumseh had inspired.

What Survival Looked Like After The Confederacy