However, as white planters opened plantations in Florida, the Seminole continued their practice of taking in runaway African-American slaves, and the US government grew concerned about the possibility of an Indian uprising or an armed slave rebellion. The Seminoles gave up their lands in the Panhandle and settled in southwestern Florida, and, by 1827, Florida was peaceful. The United States had acquired Florida from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, and, as white settlers began to arrive, they pressured the government to remove the Seminole Native Americans in order to occupy their lands. After eight years of spirited Seminole resistance, the United States government decided to allow for the tribe to occupy an informal reservation in southwestern Florida, but they encouraged most of the Seminole to migrate west to the Indian Territory in exchange for a rifle, money, and a year's worth of rations. The Seminole under Osceola resisted the Indian Removal Act under President Andrew Jackson, leading to the longest and costliest of the United States' wars against the Native American tribes. The Second Seminole War was a war between the United States government and the Seminole tribe of Florida, fought from 1834 to 1842.
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