MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Question
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Jackson’s attack on Florida showed that the Spanish could not protect Florida from the United States if it chose to invade.
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Jackson’s attack on Florida destroyed the important towns that made Florida valuable to Spain.
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Florida had become overrun by escaped African American slaves who joined with the Seminole Nation.
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Spain needed the income from the sale of Florida to develop its other holdings in the Americas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Florida had become a burden to Spain, which could not afford to send settlers or garrisons, so the Spanish government decided to cede the territory to the United States in exchange for settling the boundary dispute along the Sabine River in Spanish Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Florida was never more than a backwater region for Spain and served primarily as a strategic buffer between New Spain (whose undefined northeastern border was somewhere near the Mississippi River), Spain’s Caribbean colonies, and the expanding English colonies to the north.
Detailed explanation-3: -He claimed, after the invasion, that his action stemmed in no way from a desire to extend the territorial limits of the United States but was instead a preventative measure against further Indian violence against whites.
Detailed explanation-4: -Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)