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
Florida.
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In 1763, Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War. However, Spain regained control of Florida in 1783 after the American Revolutionary War through another treaty. Therefore, while Britain claimed Florida in 1763, it was originally a Spanish territory before that time.
Russia claimed it.
Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain during his expedition in 1513.
Russia claimed it.
What country first explored Ohio, and claimed it as a territory