The Creek War (1813–1814) was a major conflict in the American Southeast, centered in Alabama during the War of 1812. U.S. forces led by Andrew Jackson defeated the "Red Sticks," a Creek faction resisting American expansion. The victory at Horseshoe Bend forced the Creeks to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, ceding over 20 million acres of land. This severely weakened regional Native resistance and opened vast fertile territory for American agricultural settlement.
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