The Choctaw relocation treaty of 1830 is named what?

• A. Treaty of Doak's Stand
• B. Treaty of Payne's Landing
• C. Treaty of Fort Smith
• D. Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

Answer: (D)

Focus on the place and what happened in that moment. The 1830 treaty with the Choctaw is named after the location where it was signed—Dancing Rabbit Creek in Mississippi. This is the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the agreement in which the Choctaw ceded lands east of the Mississippi and consented to relocate to Indian Territory, a key action in the Indian Removal era under Andrew Jackson.

The other names refer to different treaties in different years or with different purposes, so they don’t match the 1830 relocation agreement. For example, other treaties with the Choctaw occurred earlier or later and dealt with land cessions or arrangements that weren’t the 1830 relocation treaty.