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Causes Of The Creek War

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The Creek War The early 1800s were dark times for the United States. Though free of its rule, the newly-formed nation now had to face Britain once again in the War of 1812. Settlers were moving into the Great Plains and to the West, forcing Native American tribes to relocate. Rising tensions between the U.S. and the native tribes, and conflicts among the tribes themselves, made the perfect conditions for another war. In 1813, tensions finally snapped when a faction of the Creek Indians known as the Red Sticks started a civil war against those Creeks who supported the National Council, a war that eventually grew to involve militias from several U.S. states and other Native American tribes. Although the exact cause of the war is uncertain, what the war was, some major battles of the war, and how it relates back to To Kill a Mockingbird are known.
At its beginning, the Creek War was a simple (but bloody) civil war between the Red Sticks, Creek Indians who opposed white settlers, and those Creeks who supported the National Council, which in turn supported white settlers on Creek land (Britannica). The Creeks themselves were a Native American tribe living in the region that would eventually become Alabama and Georgia (Rutgers). Although the exact cause of the war is uncertain, the roots of the conflict can be traced back to the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who journeyed to the south in an attempt to warn other tribes about the danger of white settlers and to ally with the British to

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