Download Adams Onis Treaty

The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty settled a border dispute in North
America between the United States and Spain. The treaty was negotiated by John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of
State under U.S. President James Monroe, and the Spanish foreign minister Luis de Onís.
The treaty was the result of increasing tensions between the U.S. and Spain regarding territorial rights at a time of
weakened Spanish power in the New World. In addition to ceding Florida to the United States, the treaty settled a
boundary dispute along the Sabine River in Texas and firmly established the boundary of U.S. territory and claims
through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean in exchange for the U.S. paying residents' claims
against the Spanish government up to a total of $5,000,000 and relinquishing its own claims on parts of Texas west
of the Sabine River and other Spanish areas.