south carolina hispanic chamber of commerce Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/south-carolina-hispanic-chamber-of-commerce Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:37:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 South Carolina and Latin America http://toursmaps.com/south-carolina-latin-america.html http://toursmaps.com/south-carolina-latin-america.html#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=205225 South Carolinians’ relationship with Latin America continued after most of the former Spanish colonies in the Americas achieved their independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century. A number of South Carolinians served as envoys to Mexico in the nineteenth century, beginning with Joel Poinsett, who was appointed by President John Quincy Adams as the first minister to a newly independent Mexico in 1825. Adams and Secretary of State Henry Clay asked Poinsett to work with the Mexican government to settle the disputed border between the United States and Mexico and to purchase land in Texas, which at the time

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