The Treaty of Cusseta was one of several with the "Five Civilized Tribes." Between 1814 and 1830, the Creek had gradually ceded lands under pressure from European-American settlers and the US government through treaties such as the Treaty of Fort Jackson and the Treaty of Washington (1826). Creek territory was constrained to a strip in east central Alabama along the Georgia border. President Jackson had signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which ultimately led to the deportation of native peoples in the Southeast to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.