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On March 30, 1822, the United States merged East Florida and part of what formerly constituted West Florida into the Florida Territory. [10] William Pope Duval became the first official governor of the Florida Territory and soon afterward the capital was established at Tallahassee , but only after removing a Seminole tribe from the land.
The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, [1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, [2] the Spanish Cession, [3] the Florida Purchase Treaty, [4] or the Florida Treaty, [5] [6] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico ().
1821 February 22: Spain officially cedes Florida (already under American occupation) to United States as part of the Adams–Onís Treaty. March 10: Andrew Jackson is appointed military governor of Florida by James Monroe being the first American governor. July 10: José María Coppinger leaves office as the last governor of East Florida.
Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a territory of the United States in 1821. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state. Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" due to its warm climate and days of sunshine.
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March 5 – James Monroe is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. [1] Daniel D. Tompkins is sworn in for his second term as Vice President of the United States. June 27 – The New Hampton School is founded in the state of New Hampshire. July 10 – The U.S. takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida ...
A sketch map published in 1898 showing the territorial changes of "West Florida" [17] p 2. The United States did not recognize the independence of the Republic of West Florida, and on October 27, 1810, James Madison proclaimed that the United States should take possession of it, on the basis that it was part of the Louisiana Purchase. [18]
East Florida (Spanish: Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821. The British gained control over Spanish Florida in 1763 as part of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War .