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The U.S. Gets Florida |
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The U.S. Gets Florida
By Cathy Pearl |
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1 The United States won independence in the late 1700s. After seeing the country win, other countries started to do the same thing. Many of these countries were in South America. By 1825, Spain had lost almost all of its colonies. The only ones that were left were Puerto Rico and Cuba.