East Florida became a prime object of territorial ambition for President James Monroe and his Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. His secretary Adams was viewing opportunities to confront Spain for control of the region.
The Philosophy of Reform that shaped this era rose from two distinct sources. These sources were t<span>ranscendental ideologies and Protestant revivalism.</span>
The Native Americans had the idea that you couldn't own land, it belonged to the gods. Native Americans also had the idea of "Communalism" which is the idea that everything in the tribe could be used by the tribe. The Europeans had been owning land and purchasing it for private use for centuries and had a deep culture of land ownership dating well past the middle ages.
