Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land claim and attempted settlement in North America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba, the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821) The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American independence, but by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 they returned to Spanish control.
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Folk music--this traditional music first emerged in the 19th century and revived during the 1950s and 1960s as protest music.
Folk music of the 1950s and 1960s told the story of civil rights and Vietnam. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger were some of the famous folk singers of the period. The music resonated with the youth generation and was the anthem of protest. <span />
George Fitzhugh. He was a racist and was pro-slavery, not an abolitionist in any shape or form.
They were technically free. But the Fugitive Slave Laws said that any escaped slave must be returned. So if they were caught they had to go back.
