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Glossary Term – Event

Convention of 1818

At the Convention of 1818, the United States and Great Britain signed a treaty resolving boundary issues and providing for joint occupation of the Oregon country west of the Rocky Mountains.

Glossary Term – Event

Adams-Onís Treaty

In the Adams-Onís Treaty was negotiated by John Adams and the Spanish Minister to the United States. Spain ceded Florida to the United States. The treaty also established the border between Spanish territory and the US.

Teaching Resource

The Treaty of Tordesillas: Resolving “a Certain Controversy” over Land in the Americas

Background

Imperial rivalries have often been resolved through war; however, the Treaty of Tordesillas is an important example of a rivalry that was resolved without hostilities through the demarcation of areas of influence by the Catholic Church. The Treaty of Tordesillas successfully arbitrated which lands could be ruled by Spain and which could be ruled by Portugal by creating a boundary “three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.” This line ran from the North to South Poles....