MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Spain decided to give Florida to the US if the US agreed to give part of the Louisiana Territory in return.
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Spain decided to do nothing and let the United States take Florida.
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Spain decided to go to war with the US and defend its claim to Florida.
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Spain decided to give Florida to the US if the US agreed to pay $5 million and ignore Spanish Texas.
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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: -Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States now wanted control of Florida. Spain’s attempt to bring settlers to Florida failed, and by 1800 Spain’s control of Florida had weakened. Gaining control of Florida for the United States would mean gaining control of the Mississippi River. That was an important route for trade.
Detailed explanation-4: -Signed in 1819 by John Quincy Adams and Luis de Onís, the Adams-Onís Treaty between the United States and Spain gave Florida to the U.S. and established the Sabine River as the border between the U.S. and New Spain. The formation of Texas was part of a global story.
Detailed explanation-5: -The United States did not recognize the independence of the Republic of West Florida, and on October 27, 1810, President James Madison proclaimed that the United States should take possession of it, on the basis that it was part of the Louisiana Purchase.