. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . rring up the Indians, he put them to characteristically impetuous action broughtgreat embarrassment to President Monroe andhis Cabinet. Calhoun wished Jackson censured,while all the other Cabinet officers were ready todisavow the deed. The posts seized by Jacksonwere given up, but Spain was now ready to sell,and in 1819 East and West Florida were formallyceded to the United States. The treaty was rati-fied in 1821, but civil government was not es-tablished until the following year. General Jackson was appointed military gov
. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . rring up the Indians, he put them to characteristically impetuous action broughtgreat embarrassment to President Monroe andhis Cabinet. Calhoun wished Jackson censured,while all the other Cabinet officers were ready todisavow the deed. The posts seized by Jacksonwere given up, but Spain was now ready to sell,and in 1819 East and West Florida were formallyceded to the United States. The treaty was rati-fied in 1821, but civil government was not es-tablished until the following year. General Jackson was appointed military gov-ernor of the new territory and held the ofificeuntil 1822, when he was succeeded by WilliamP. Duval, the first civil governor.•^ The settlement of the newly acquired lands wasslow, to a great extent on account of difficultieswith the Indians. These were the so-called Semi-nole tribes, which originally formed a part of theCreeks, but separated from the main confederacyand overran the Florida Peninsula, when theCreek country was almost depopulated by the. In Old St. Augustine
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