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Scarce map of the southeastern part of the United States, published by Carey & Warner in Philadelphia.

The map extends from Mississippi Territory (pre-dating Alabama) to North Carolina. Both East Florida and West Florida are shown, predating The Adams Onis Treaty.

Mississippi Territory was a territory of the United States from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when it was admitted to the Union as the state. The Mississippi Territory was expanded in 1804 and again in 1812 until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee. Georgia gave up the northern portion in 1802, and the Gulf Coast region was acquired from Spain. Originally Mississippi Territory included what is now Alabama, and 9 months before Mississippi was admitted into the Union in 1817, the Alabama Territory to the east was separated out, on March 3, 1817.

Following the conclusion of the American Revolution, Florida reverted from the British to the Spanish, who had allied with the French against the English in the global conflict that included the American Revolution. Spain controlled East and West Florida as separate provinces. There were several territorial disputes between the US and Spain, some resulting in military action. An American army under Andrew Jackson invaded East Florida during the First Seminole War. Jackson's forces captured St. Mark's on April 7, 1818 and Pensacola on May 24, 1818. James Monroe's Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, defined the American position on this issue. Adams accused Spain of breaking Pinckney's Treaty by failing to control the Seminoles. Faced with the prospect of losing control, Spain formally ceded all of its Florida territory to the US under the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819 (ratified in 1821), in exchange for the US ceding its claims on Texas and the US paying any claims its citizens might have against Spain up to $5,000,000.