Spanish Cession
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The Spanish Cession includes land that makes up all of present-day Florida, and parts of present-day Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. It was given to the US in the Adams-Onís Treaty after Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida without approval from the current president, James Monroe. The Spanish could not defend their colony because they were trying to put down rebellions in their South American colonies. They therefore gave the territory to the United States in exchange for five million dollars. The Cession includes West and East Florida.
