Quick Facts
- Also called:
- Adams-Onís Treaty or Purchase of Florida
- Date:
- 1819
- Location:
- United States
- Participants:
- Spain
- United States
- Context:
- Seminole Wars
- First Seminole War
- Key People:
- John Quincy Adams
- James Monroe
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Transcontinental Treaty
Spain-United States [1819]
Also known as: Adams-Onís Treaty, Purchase of Florida
Transcontinental Treaty, (1819) accord between the United States and Spain that divided their North American claims along a line from the southwestern corner of what is now Louisiana, north and west to what is now Wyoming, and thence west along the latitude 42° N to the Pacific. Thus, Spain ceded Florida and renounced the Oregon Country in exchange for recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Texas.
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