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52) Explain the source of the territorial dispute between Spain and the United States in the years after the Revolutionary War.
 
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Answer: The ideal answer should include:



  • By 1783, Spain had control of Louisiana, West Florida, and East Florida.


  • Because Spain controlled both banks of the lower Mississippi, the Spanish determined who could use the river for trade.


  • Since 1763, the Spanish had let British subjects navigate freely on the Mississippi.


  • Nonetheless, Spanish authorities feared American expansion into the Mississippi Valley.


  • A 1783 treaty between Britain and the United States established the thirty-first parallel as the southern boundary of the United States.


  • The same treaty also gave Americans the right to navigate on the Mississippi.


  • The Spanish believed that West Florida stretched above the thirty-first parallel and that they alone should grant navigation rights on the Mississippi.
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