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The land is ceded after prolonged negotiations in which the United States is represented by Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby, while the Chickasaws are represented by their chiefs, head men, and warriors including: Levi and George Colbert, Chinubby, and Tishomingo.
On October 19, 1818, the two sides agree to the transfer by signing the Treaty of Tuscaloosa.
The United States agrees to pay the Chickasaws $300,000, at the rate of $20,000 annually for fifteen years, in return for the right to all Chickasaw land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mississippi state line.
The treaty will be ratified by the United States Senate and confirmed by President James Monroe on January 7, 1819.
In modern geographic usage, the name "Jackson Purchase" typically refers only to the portion of the historical region in the state of Kentucky.
The Tennessee portion of the historical region is known as "West Tennessee."
The University of Alabama is opens to students on April 18, 1831, with the Reverend Alva Woods as President.
The newly created Alabama Territory had been authorized by Congress in 1818 to set aside a township for the establishment of a "seminary of learning."
When Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819, a second township was added to the land grant, bringing it to a total of forty-six thousand acres (one hundred and eighty-six square kilometers).
The General Assembly of Alabama established the seminary on December 18, 1820, named it "The University of the State of Alabama," and created a Board of Trustees to manage the construction and operation of the university.
The board had chosen as the site of the campus a place just outside the city limits of Tuscaloosa, currently the state capital.
The University's charter is presented to the first University president in the nave of Christ Episcopal Church in Tuscaloosa.