Like all the rest America continent Florida belonged to the Indians. The most prominent tribe in Florida was the Seminole. The first white people to claim possession of Florida were the Spaniards. Later on the Americans stared to have their eyes on Florida and a war was fought between them and the Spanish between 1812 and 1815.

The United States didn´t win it in the war of 1812, but that didn´t mean Americans or General Andrew Jackson had forgotten about it. During the war of 1812, Jackson became known for his particular ruthless fighting against Creek Indians in the South. In 1817 president James Monroe asked Jackson to look into raids made on Georgia settlements by Florida´s is Seminole Indians and protected the runway slaves who lived with the Seminole. Spain still held Florida, and Jackson didn´t have permission to invade Spainsh territory.​ But he invaded anyway, burning villages and crops and overthrowing the Spanish governor Spain was too weak to fight a war, so in 1819 they sold Florida to the United States for of 5 million dollars.

On March, 3, 1845, Florida beame the 27th sate of the United States of America, although initially its population grew slowly. White settlers continued to encroach on lands used by the Seminoles, and the United States goverment resolved to make another effort to move the remaining Seminoles to the West. The Third Seminole War lasted from 1855 to 1858, and resulted in the removal of most of the remainings Seminoles. Even after three bloody wars, the U.S. Army failed to force all of the Seminole Indians in Florida to the West. Though most of the Seminoles were forcibly exiled to Creek land West of the Mississipi, hundreds, including Seminole leader Rijeka ( Sam Jones), remained in the Everglades and refused to leave the native homeland of their ancestors. Their descandants remain there to this day. The goverment those stole the land from its oringinal owners the Seminoles, causing a lot of suffering.

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Florida becomes America territory