Answer:
TRUE OR FALSE SECTION
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE
FALSE
FALSE
MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION
A. Enslaved People
A. A free state joined the union.
B. Stephen Austin
C. They were defeated.
A. Andrew Jackson
How did Florida become part of the United States?
It’s a long and interesting history. The Spanish first landed in Florida in 1513, and the city of St Augustine, Florida, became the oldest European settlement — by far — in what is now the United States. But for a very long time, Spanish was spoken rather than English.
For over 200 years, the Spanish colony of Florida held out stubbornly against the encroachment of the English-speaking colonies to its north. But by the early 19th Century, English speaking “Anglos” from the USA and the UK occupied more and more of Florida — starting with the northern part of it.
By the time of President James Madison, Spain was finding it harder and harder to defend its Florida colony against the encroachments of the Yankees. Spain decided it was just too expensive, and the English speaking residents were lobbying hard for independence from Spain, making trouble for the colonial government. Spain eventually decided it wasn’t worth the expense of trying to defend it.
And so, after over 200 years of being a Spanish colony, Spain finally ceded Florida to the USA, in the Madison-Olin treaty (1821).