Florida under the brits 1764 1783 The British traded the Spanish for Florida Andrew turnbull o Florida is to big to be one colony so it is divided into two parts East Florida is everything east of the Appalachia coal river and west Florida Is everything west of it Naval stores are anything that is used in the construction of ships west FL had these They also were big in fur trade o Wanted to create a great plantation of Mediterranean crops because he realized that it had the same climate as Italy o His wife was from Greece o He did not believe in slavery he believed that people from Mediterranean would be best to work on the plantation so he imported 300 families from Mediterranean islands o The people from Minorca and cajorka are upset because it is not like the Mediterranean like they are told o Yellow fever killed a lot Florida in the revolution o Spanish soldiers at Pensacola British soldiers at St Augustine o The Spanish during the American revolution ally themselves with America and try to et back Florida o The Spanish in 1781 took mobile Alabama o The largest battle was at Pensacola between Spanish and British the Spanish won and had a claim to Florida o After the revolution the Spanish get Florida back o The Spanish allow Americans in but only if they fight for the Spanish if under attack Andrew Jackson somewhere else o The Indians that lived in Florida had been chased into Florida from o The Spanish gave them the name Seminole which means wild man o Some called themselves Miccosukee they would raid crops and cattle from Georgia a border war o Andrew Jackson was sent to Florida to dissolve the hostility o He chased the Miccosukee s away and then just thought he would take a Spanish fort because he has nothing better to do then chases the Seminoles across the Suwannee river Jackson makes the Seminoles sign a treaty to live in south Florida and leave the settlers alone o The saint marks fort was taken over so the Spanish just sold in for 5 million dollars o When Spanish protested about Jackson so he was kicked out of the army but was given the job of governor of Florida He stayed for less than 3 months and left o There were two capitols St Augustine and Pensacola and they just wanted one capitol so they created Tallahassee because it was the point between these other two capitols Second Seminole Indian war 1835 1842 o Andrew Jackson passes Indian removal act so they Seminoles in south Florida were told to move o Some chiefs signed a treaty that said they would move within three years extends to Ocala o In 1835 troops were sent to move the Seminoles civilization only o Francis Dade was in charge of troops sent to get Seminoles of the 139 soldiers only 3 escaped from a Seminole ambush o Osceola means black drink a drink that made the Indians throw up so it would help a stomach wound heal faster was the leader behind the ambush he was a war party leader and his real name was Billy Powel the son of an English man and a Creek mother Born in Alabama This war lasts 7 years He was captured during peace negotiations and put in St Augustine fort than a fort in South Carolina He died because of disease the doctor cut his head off and used it to scare people o Nobody came to Florida because they were afraid of the Seminoles o Florida became a state in 1845 people wanted two states made out of Florida but it was accepted as one state o 91000 acres of land were set aside for schools 2 colleges were established the east Florida seminary and the west Florida seminary o the west Florida seminary later became fsu it was also a military school Compromise of 1850 o Southwestern US 1848 the US obtained a ton o land from Mexico before the Mexican war even ends a democrat named David Wilmot sided with the anti Mexican war He stood up in congress one day and announces a condition also called a Proviso attaches this to a war appropriations bill and it says that slavery cannot extend into any territories gained during the Mexican war He believed the land should be save for small farmers he wasn t against slavery he just wanted small farmers to have the land He believed that small farmers cant make a living without Wilmot s Proviso becomes a plank and foundation in anti slaves slavery Abraham Lincoln believed the same as Wilmot Southerners were against this and northerners were for it In 1848 gold was found in California word immediately spread to San Francisco and everything was deserted to look for gold o 80k people went to look for gold o California wrote a state constitution and declared itself a free state with no slavery When California sent their constitution to congress fro approval and all hell broke loose This is because there was a balance between slave states and free states With California as a free state it would give the free states a 2 seat advantage In congress Suddenly southerners realize that a lot of northern places will become free states after California becomes a state so the southerners try to block California from getting into the union Zachary Taylor the president at this time is a large slave owner so southerners believe he will be on their side to block California Not only is Zachary Taylor supportive of California coming in as a free state but also states from Mexico o Congress met in the winter months o There was a lot of fighting in congress o Henry Clay in his 70s at the time comes up with a compromise to avoid a struggle over California He presented 8 resolutions to the senate The resolution stated that California would become free state and it will be left up to the citizens of new Mexico and Arizona if they become a slave state or not Clay also didn t like slavery in D C because it did not look good when ambassadors came Texas is in debt and clay says if they give up some land claims that US will take up some of the debt Southern tried to break states into more states to get more representation for slave states John Calhoun said that the north had outgrown the south because legislation always favored the north in his speech tocongress he says that the north has to back down on there aggression or else something bad is going to happen o Calhoun brought up Cessation Daniel Webster and Calhoun always went against another Webster surprised everyone by saying that there must be compromise William Seward came up to speak and said that there is a higher law than the constitution in this land and it is the judgment of god and because of slavery you will be under the
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