Territory is a major cause of wars and crises between countries. Throughout history people have been fighting over who owns what land. In this essay I will be going over just one of these conflicts involving territory. This essay will go over and explain the territorial disputes over Florida between the United States of America and Spain. The early part of the nineteenth century saw the United States expanding under an impulse known to historians …showed first 75 words of 1773 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1773 total…for Caribbean commerce. (Gold, 189). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Martin, Sidney Martin. Florida During the Territorial Days. The University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA., 1944. Brooks, Philip Coolidge. Diplomacy and the Borderlands : The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819. The University of California Press. Berkeley, CA., 1939. Gold, Robert L. Borderland Empires in Transition. Feffer & Simons, INC. London, England, 1969. Bevans, Charles, I. ed. Treaties and Other International Agreements Of the United States of America, 1779-1949. John Wiley & Sons, INC. New York, NY., r.1986.