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War of 1812
America declared war on Great Britian. They did not like the way the British were fueling the Natives negative perspection on them and how they supported native resistance. Americans were in favor of the conflict because they wanted natural rights. The War Hawks were also begginning to compose a problem by changing the landscape. -
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First Seminole War
After much territorial conflict with Spanish owned Florida, and how the seminoles provided slaves, the U.S. army attacked the seminole and there runaway slave allies and easily defeated them. A series of battles that made up the war ended in the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819 which gave the U.S. Florida, and put Spain into debt. Americans then pushed all the last natives out of their new territory. -
Tricked and Captured
In Florida State Archives, 2 micos, or chiefs of the seminole tribe were captured by the forces of Jackson who made them wave the British flag to lure other Indians toward them to be imprisioned. -
Treaty of Payne's Landing
When Americans were forcing the Seminoles out of their territory, we offered them an alternative area in the west for them to move to. Some Seminole chiefs traveled to observe and judge the reservations. While there, the U.S. army enforced the Seminole chiefs to sign this treaty which stated all the Seminole would give up their Florida territory and move within 3 years. The rest of the Seminole were not happy and refused to more and insisted to fight. -
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Second Seminole War
Americans started to settle in newly obtained Florida, and they would invade Seminole lands which caused problems. To end these problems, the govonor asked the Seminole to relocate and they refused. The govonor offered the Seminole the Treaty of Moultrie Creek which would provoke them to give up their land and move southward and to stop helping runaway slaves. They still refused and a warrior, Osceo, led surprize attacks at the Americans and then the U.S. just foced them out towards the west -
Seminole to Everglades
By this time, the very little left of the Seminole in Florida, retreated to the Everglades because they still periodically attacked Americans and would rather flee than surrender. -
Florida Joins U.S.
People were anious to unify Florida. They wrote a constitution in December 1838 and it contained the laws Florida citizens agreed to follow. The U.S. congress would not approve Florida as a state although, because it wanted to join as a slave state. It eventually got admittied since Iowa also joined the country but as a free state.
