The Trouble With the Spanish

In the 17 eighties, each state tried to work out its own deal with the british. The spanish were none too happy about the boundary lines of the new united states. To combat the spread of american settlers, they closed up the lower mississippi in 17 84. This was a stab at the jugular of migrants moving into what is now mostly the states of kentucky and tennessee their economic livelihoods depended on trading down the river rather than back overland to the atlantic. So much so that the sp Spanish even started offering these new settlers access to the river if they agreed to renounce the united states and incorporate themselves as part of the