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 reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as the democratic reforms of Cleisthenes, which Sparta always opposed.
The same time that state legislatures opened suffrage (that is, the right to vote) to all white men, they simultaneously closed the door firmly on white women .
