1. Florida, The Missouri Compromise & Foreign Policy

2. Spanish Florida:
Spanish conflicts: Latin American colonies rebelling, Napoleon in France.
1818: General Andrew Jackson invades Florida with orders to catch Seminole Indians raiding Georgia.
Jackson raids Spanish towns and garrisons.
John Q. Adams meets with Spanish Foreign Minister Luis de Onis & create the Adams-Onis Treaty.

3. Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Spain would give up Florida and lands East of Louisiana to America.
America would pay up to $5 million for damages caused by Jackson’s raids.
No money was ever paid.
Florida was nearly given to America. Why?

4. The Monroe Doctrine
1823 – President James Monroe gives a speech describing the “Monroe Doctrine”
Warns European nations not to colonize or interfere with other nations or areas in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe wanted to secure the western hemisphere for the United States.

8. Topics to Recall Representation in Congress.
Differences between Northern & Southern states.

9. Background: Early 1800s – 22 states total.
11 are slave holding states; 11 are free states.
Keeps an even balance of power between N & S in Congress.
Economic factors & tariffs cause tension between the two.

10. Problem:
Missouri would like to join the nation as an official state AND would like to enter as a slave holding state.
Would make 12 slave, 11 free states.
Why is this a problem?
Northerners wanted to ban slavery, southerners claimed new states had the right to choose for themselves.

11. Missouri Compromise Missouri would enter as a slave state.
Maine would also become an independent, free state.
Keeps the balance of free and slave states.
Aside from Missouri, slavery was banned in areas of the Louisiana Purchase North of the 36*30’ latitude line.