He was, in fact, sent down to Fort Scott because of Seminole retaliatory strikes against the United States in late 1817. General Jackson concluded that it was necessary for the United States to invade Spanish territory and forcibly take control of Pensacola, thereby dispersing (or killing) the Indians gathered there.
because cotton was the main source of income for the southern economy so they will give this cotton to the north to export it that why there was a phrase called cotton is king
