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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 ().
Elsewhere it is usually viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession. In France, it was known as the Second Intercolonial War. [2] The war was primarily a conflict between French, Spanish and English colonists for control of the North American continent while the War of the Spanish Succession was being fought in Europe ...
The British government sought to reduce its debt by increasing the volume of trade it had with Spain, which required gaining access to the Asiento de Negros; as historian G.M. Trevelyan noted: "The finances of the country were based in May 1711 on the assumption that the Asiento, or monopoly of the slave trade with Spanish America, would be ...
Boundary of the Philippines based on Treaty of Paris (1898) shown in green lines [1] The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, [a] was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, and marked the end of the Spanish–American War.
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between supporters of the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs .
The Asiento did not concern French or British Caribbean, or Brazil, but only Spanish America. The 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas divided the Atlantic Ocean and other parts of the globe into two zones of influence, Spanish and Portuguese. The Spanish acquired the west side, washing South America and the West Indies, whilst the Portuguese obtained ...
Removes Bavaria from the War of the Spanish Succession. Treaty of Narva: Great Northern War: Saxon–Polish–Lithuanian–Russian alliance. 1705 Treaty of Warsaw: Great Northern War: Polish–Lithuanian–Swedish alliance. Pact of Genoa: War of the Spanish Succession: alliance between the Kingdom of England and the Principality of Catalonia. 1706
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, [62] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, settled a border dispute in North America between the United States and Spain. The treaty was the result of increasing tensions between the U.S. and Spain regarding territorial rights at a time of weakened Spanish power in the New World.