![]() Many Americans took advantage of this offer. The Spanish government, anxious to develop this state, offered large tracts of land to anyone who would settle a certain number of families within a definite area. ![]() Just across this line was the district of Texas, then a province of Mexico called Coahuila y Tejas. When the United States purchased Florida from Spain in 1819, the boundary between the Spanish and American line on the southwest was fixed by the Sabine River. ![]()
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