Spain owned the mouth of of the Mississippi river.
Spain owned the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to American trade because if American relations with Great Britain were poor, affairs with Spain were worse. Spain, which held Florida as well as lands west of the Mississippi River, was anxious to halt American expansion into the territory it claimed. As a result, Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to American shipping in 1784.
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During the American Revolution... The land north of the Mississippi River was controlled by Spain
MS....it would be Mississippi
Mississippi.
Savannah is the closest shipping port from Douglas, Georgia. Savannah is the oldest city in the state of Georgia, and was an important port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War.
They had the largest number of African American representatives
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The difficulty with maintaining neutrality for America during WW I was that America was doing business with England, and Germany was attacking the American shipping.