During the early 1800s, the united states tried to make peace with other countries in order to grow and develop. give an example of one of these peace efforts and briefly explain what it hoped to accomplish.

The Seminoles and runaway slaves from parts of America often attacked the Georgia landowners and then fled back into Florida. To end these Seminole raids, General Andrew Jackson and his army came to Florida in 1817 and signed a treaty with the Florida and US. Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty. Spain agrees to surrender the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States. Spain had been worn out by the Peninsular war in Europe and needed to rebuild its authority and presence in its colonies. So the Spain and US signed an Admas – Onis treaty in the year 1819 which set out a boundary between the New Spain (now Mexico) and US. It was effective in 1821