Identifier: historyofuniteds00will (find matches)
Title: History of the United States, or, Republic of America : with a chronological table and a series of progressive maps
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Willard, Emma, 1787-1870
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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n of the engagementalready entered into by an authorized agent of Spain. Flori-da had ceased to be of any political value to that nation, andthe just claim of the citizens of the United States, she knewnot how else to canceL25* 364 TREATY WITH SPAIN RATIFIED. PART IV.PERIOD II. CHAP. XIX. 1820. Treaty rati-fied andFloridaceded. The treaty was therefore ratified by the Spanish govern-ment in October, 1820, and possession of the Floridas giventhe following year. Although the addition of this peninsula, which completesthe ocean boundary of the United States, made no great sen-sation, and seemed little to afiect the politics of the country,yet the event was important, and fraught with consequences.The historian of the American Republic must now look back,and give the history of Florida as a part of his nlan, and look-ing forward from its cession, we already find a bloody warfollowing this increase of territory. lilipiliii s g 1^ ii ^ N >» $ ?^ > 1 ^. ^ ^ ^ f=: - $. ^ ^
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iliiiliiiiiiiiiraiiili ^*IS PERIOD III THE CESSION I 1§20 1 OF FLORIDA.TOTHE TREATY OF I 1S4§. 1 GAUDALUPE HIDALGO. CHAPTER I, The Missouri question. A PETITION was presented to congress this year, from theterritory of Missouri, praying for authority to form a stategovernment, and to be admitted into the Union. A bill wasaccordingly introduced for that purpose, which with an amend-ment, prohibiting slavery within the new state, passed thehouse of representatives, but was arrested in the senate. The district of Maine also presented a memorial to con-gress, praying \,o be separated from Massachusetts, to be au-thorized to form its own constitution, and to be admitted intothe Union, on an equal footing with the other states. Thetwo bills for the admission of Maine and Missouri were joined,but not without much opposition from the advocates of the re-striction in the Missouri bill. Upon this subject, the mem-bers of congress were divided into two parties ; those fromthe non-slaveholding

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