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The US bought the state of Florida from the Spanish.

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In the year 1819, the US gained the territory known then as Spanish Florida. It was acquired after John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis agreed to the deal and signed the Florida Purchase Treaty.


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