Plantations were developed primarily along the major rivers , where the waterfront provided access to the major transportation routes . This is also where early towns developed , linked by the steamboats that carried commercial products and crops to markets . The remainder of Native American ancestral land remained largely undeveloped but was sold through treaties until 1826 , when the Choctaws and Chickasaws refused to sell more land . The combination of the Mississippi state legislature 's abolition of Choctaw Tribal Government in 1829 , President Andrew Jackson 's Indian Removal Act and the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830 , the Choctaw were effectively forced to sell their land and were transported to Oklahoma Territory . The forced migration of the Choctaw , together with other southeastern tribes removed as a result of the Act , became known as the Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Mississippi