countries. Throughout history people have been fighting

over who owns what land. In this essay I will be going over

just one of these conflicts involving territory.

This essay will go over and explain the territorial

disputes over Florida between the United States of America

and Spain. The early part of the nineteenth century saw the

United States expanding under an impulse known to historians

as manifest destiny. Manifest destiny was not only a move

westward but also towards the south. " The Acquisition of

Florida was part of this southward movement, and though

Spain did not care to let Florida Pass from under her

jurisdiction, conditions made it impossible for her to do

more than delay the action" (Martin, 1).

For years before 1810 Spanish Florida spread across a

narrow strip of the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the

Mississippi River. Temptation was high to acquire this

territory, so on October 27, 1810, President James Madison

proclaimed American authority over all the section of

Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers. By the

year 1814 American troops were stationed throughout this

area and thereafter Spain never gained control of it again.

Suwannee River the dividing point. The Western boundary

Spain, whose feelings had been ruffled by Jackson's ruthless

office and therefore delayed the ratification for a long

for five million dollars. (Gold, 187) "Spain actually

were given by Adams when Onis called his attention to

Brooks, Philip Coolidge. Diplomacy and the Borderlands : The Adams-Onis Treaty of

war between the two states. Onis gradually gave into

to the United States. General Andrew Jackson led and

America; and third, that the United States promise not to

States. The treaty was arranged that all grants made

neither did the Unites States care for war with Spain, but

preparing to occupy all of the Florida Region by force. By

Expeditionary force across the border into Florida in 1818

they were hoping that Spain would keep the claim on Florida

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Approximate Word count = 1630
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)