Spain, in 1500s. St. Augustine was the first permanent European settlement in North America. Spain lost the colony to Britain in 1763 but regained it after the American Revolution.
France
Mexico
Cuba is 90 miles south of Florida and has a communist government.
Promoting the idea that slavery was ungodly - while Southerners claimed it was a perfect God-given arrangement of man and master.
The English claimed Virginia in 1607
Spain
Mexico
The initial European power that claimed the Florida peninsula was Spain. Spain ceded it to the United States and it became a state in 1845.
The English Claimed Florida controlled the entire east coat while Spain got modern day new Orleans and Louisiana
Spain claimed the territory of Florida
Christian
Florida.
Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain during his expedition in 1513.
Russia claimed it.
Russia claimed it.
What country first explored Ohio, and claimed it as a territory
The country that claimed the land west and north of the 13 colonies was France and Spain claimed the land south of the colonies