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{{History of Florida}}
The '''history of Florida''' can be traced to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunbar |first=James S. |title=The pre-Clovis occupation of Florida: The Page-Ladson and Wakulla Springs Lodge Data |url=http://www.clovisinthesoutheast.net/dunbar.html |access-date=June 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012043208/http://www.clovisinthesoutheast.net/dunbar.html |archive-date=October 12, 2014 }}</ref> They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's [[Recorded history|written history]] begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer [[Juan Ponce de León]] in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that ''[[conquistador]]'', who called the peninsula ''La Pascua Florida'' in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called ''[[Pascua Florida]]'' (Festival of Flowers).<ref name="Chang-Rodríguez2006">{{cite book|first=Raquel|last=Chang-Rodríguez|title=Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida Del Inca|url={{Google books|d3UGjXiSAJ0C|page=47|plainurl=yes}}|year=2006|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-0-8387-5651-5|page=47}}</ref><ref name="Vega2010">{{cite book|author=Garcilaso de la Vega|title=The Florida of the Inca|url={{Google books|o11AZeV4pwEC|page=5|plainurl=yes}}|date=June 28, 2010|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78905-0|page=5}}</ref><ref name="Steigman2005">{{cite book|first=Jonathan D.|last=Steigman|title=La Florida Del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America|url={{Google books|QTjoOz7WMiIC|page=33|plainurl=yes}}|date=September 25, 2005|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5257-8|page=33}}</ref>
This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting in 1513. Since then Florida has had many waves of colonization and immigration, including French and Spanish settlement during the 16th century, as well as entry of new Native American groups migrating from elsewhere in the South, and free black people and fugitive slaves, who in the 19th century became allied with the Native Americans as [[Black Seminoles]]. Florida was under colonial rule by [[Spanish Empire|Spain]] from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by [[British Empire|Great Britain]] during the 18th century (1763–1783). Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a [[Florida Territory|territory]] of the United States in 1821. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state.
Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" due to its warm climate and days of sunshine. Florida's sunny climate, many beaches, and growth of industries have attracted northern migrants within the United States, international migrants, and vacationers since the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s]]. A diverse population, urbanization, and a diverse economy would develop in Florida throughout the 20th century. In 2014, Florida with over 19 million people, surpassed New York and became the third most [[List of U.S. states and territories by population|populous state in the U.S.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://proximityone.com/st0030.htm|title=Demographic Composition and Trends|date=n.d.|access-date=April 18, 2012|publisher=Proximity}}</ref>
The economy of Florida has changed over its history, starting with [[Exploitation of natural resources|natural resource exploitation]] in logging, mining, fishing, and [[sponge diving]]; as well as [[Ranch|cattle ranching]], farming, and [[Citrus|citrus growing]]. The tourism, real estate, trade, banking, and [[Retirement community|retirement destination]] businesses would develop as economic sectors later on.
==Early history==
===Geology===
[[File:Shell Midden, Enterprise, FL.jpg|thumb|250px|A shell [[midden]] at [[Enterprise, Florida]] in 1875.]]
The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of [[Gondwana]] at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of [[Laurentia]] 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator. By then, Florida was surrounded by desert, in the middle of a new continent, [[Pangaea]]. When Pangaea broke up 115 mya, Florida assumed a shape as a peninsula.<ref name="Hine2013">{{cite book|first=Albert C.|last=Hine|title=Geologic History of Florida: Major Events that Formed the Sunshine State|url={{Google books|XZm-MgEACAAJ|page=30-31|plainurl=yes}}|year=2013|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-4421-7|pages=30–31}}</ref>
The emergent [[landmass]] of Florida was [[Orange Island (Florida)|Orange Island]], a low-relief island sitting atop the carbonate [[Florida Platform]] which emerged about 34 to 28 million years ago.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hughes|first1=Joseph D.|last2=Vacher|first2=H.L.|last3=Sanford|first3=Ward E.|date=2007|title=Three-dimensional flow in the Florida platform: Theoretical analysis of Kohout convection at its type locality|url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/35/7/663/129931/Three-dimensional-flow-in-the-Florida-platform|journal=Geology|volume=35|issue=7|pages=663–666|doi=10.1130/G23374A.1|bibcode=2007Geo....35..663H |access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref> When [[Quaternary glaciation|glaciation]] locked up the world's water, starting 2.58 million years ago, the sea level dropped precipitously. It was approximately {{convert|100|m|sp=us}} lower than present levels. As a result, the Florida peninsula not only emerged, but had a land area about twice what it is today. Florida also had a drier and cooler climate than in more recent times. There were few flowing rivers or [[wetland]]s.
===First Floridians===
{{See also|Indigenous peoples of Florida|Indigenous people of the Everglades region}}
[[Paleo-Indians]] entered what is now Florida at least 14,000 years ago, during the [[last glacial period]].<ref name=purdy>{{Cite book|title=Florida's People During the Last Ice Age|last=Purdy|first=Barbara A.|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8130-3204-7|publisher=University Press of Florida|quote=Purdy: 2, states that the evidence for the presence of humans in Florida by 14,000 years ago is "indisputable".}}</ref>{{rp|2}} With lower sea levels, the Florida peninsula was much wider, and the climate was cooler and much drier than in the present day. Fresh water was available only in [[sinkhole]]s and [[limestone]] catchment basins, and paleo-Indian activity centered around these relatively scarce watering holes. Sinkholes and basins in the beds of modern rivers (such as the [[Page-Ladson]] site in the [[Aucilla River]]) have yielded a rich trove of paleo-Indian [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]], including [[Clovis point]]s.<ref name=milanich98/>{{rp|3–12}}
Excavations at an ancient stone [[quarry]] (the Container Corporation of America site in [[Marion County, Florida|Marion County]]) yielded "crude stone implements" showing signs of extensive wear from deposits below those holding Paleo-Indian artifacts. [[Thermoluminescence dating]] and [[weathering]] analysis independently gave dates of 26,000 to 28,000 years ago for the creation of the artifacts. The findings are controversial, and funding has not been available for follow-up studies.<ref name=purdy/>{{rp|106–115}}
As the glaciers began retreating about 8000 [[Common Era|BCE]], the climate of Florida became warmer and wetter. As the glaciers melted, the sea level rose, reducing the land mass. Many prehistoric habitation sites along the old coastline were slowly submerged, making artifacts from early coastal cultures difficult to find.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dos.myflorida.com/historical/archaeology/underwater/sites/drowned-prehistoric-sites/|title=Drowned Prehistoric Sites|date=n.d.|publisher=Florida Dept of State}}</ref> The paleo-Indian culture was replaced by, or evolved into, the [[Archaic period in the Americas|Early Archaic culture]]. With an increase in population and more water available, the people occupied many more locations, as evidenced by numerous artifacts. [[Archeology|Archaeologists]] have learned much about the Early Archaic people of Florida from the discoveries made at [[Windover Archeological Site|Windover Pond]]. The Early Archaic period evolved into the Middle Archaic period around 5000 BC. People started living in villages near wetlands and along the coast at favored sites that were likely occupied for multiple generations.
The Late Archaic period started about 3000 BC, when Florida's climate had reached current conditions and the sea had risen close to its present level. People commonly occupied both fresh and saltwater wetlands. Large shell [[middens]] accumulated during this period. Many people lived in large villages with purpose-built [[Earthworks (archaeology)|earthwork]] [[mound]]s, such as at [[Horr's Island]], which had the largest permanently occupied community in the Archaic period in the southeastern United States. It also has the oldest [[burial mound]] in the East, dating to about 1450 BC. People began making fired pottery in Florida by 2000 BC. By about 500 BC, the Archaic culture, which had been fairly uniform across Florida, began to fragment into regional cultures.<ref name=milanich98/>{{rp|12–37}}
The post-Archaic cultures of eastern and southern Florida developed in relative isolation. It is likely that the peoples living in those areas at the time of first European contact were direct descendants of the inhabitants of the areas in late Archaic and [[Woodland period|Woodland]] times. The cultures of the Florida panhandle and the north and central [[Gulf of Mexico|Gulf]] coast of the Florida peninsula were strongly influenced by the [[Mississippian culture]], producing two local variants known as the [[Pensacola culture]] and the [[Fort Walton culture]].<ref name=MARRINAN2007>{{cite journal|first1=Rochelle A.|last1=Marrinan|author2=Nancy Marie White|url=http://www.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org/pdf/fw1.pdf|title=Modeling Fort Walton Culture in Northwest Florida|journal=Southeastern Archaeology|volume=26|number=2–Winter|year=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403084151/http://www.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org/pdf/fw1.pdf|archive-date=April 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name=WEINSTEIN2008>{{cite journal|journal=Southeastern Archaeology |title=The spread of shell-tempered ceramics along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico |volume=27 |issue=2 |year=2008 |author1=Weinstein, Richard A. |author2=Dumas, Ashley A. |url=http://www.coastalenv.com/sarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425141409/http://www.coastalenv.com/sarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf |archive-date=April 25, 2012 }}</ref>
Continuity in cultural history suggests that the peoples of those areas were also descended from the inhabitants of the Archaic period. In the panhandle and the northern part of the peninsula, people adopted cultivation of maize. Its cultivation was restricted or absent among the tribes who lived south of the [[Timucua language|Timucuan]]-speaking people (i.e., south of a line approximately from present-day [[Daytona Beach, Florida]] to a point on or north of Tampa Bay.)<ref name=milanich98>{{cite book|first=Jerald T.|last=Milanich|title=Florida's Indians From Ancient Time to the Present|date=1998|publisher=University Press of Florida|pages=38–132|isbn=978-0813015996}}</ref> Peoples in southern Florida depended on the rich estuarine environment and developed a highly complex society without agriculture.
===European contact and aftermath===
[[File:Flindians1723.JPG|thumb|250px|[[Bernard Picart]] Copper Plate Engraving of Florida Indians, circa 1721<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Bernard|editor-first=Chez J.F.|last1=Bernard|first1=Jean-Frédéric|last2=Picart|first2=Bernard|title=Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/50032372/}}<!--Private collection of L.S. Morgan in St. Augustine, FL--></ref>]]
At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes. (Anthropologist [[Henry F. Dobyns]] has estimated that as many as 700,000 people lived in Florida in 1492).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lord|first=Lewis|date=August 1997|title=How Many People Were Here Before Columbus?|pages=68–70|work=U.S. News & World Report|url=https://www.bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2009/4/5/34767803/Pre-Columbian%20population.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2021}}</ref> The [[Spanish Empire]] sent Spanish explorers recording nearly one hundred names of groups they encountered, ranging from organized political entities such as the [[Apalachee]], with a population of around 50,000, to villages with no known political affiliation. There were an estimated 150,000 speakers of dialects of the [[Timucua language]], but the [[Timucua]] were organized as groups of villages and did not share a common culture.<ref name=milanich95>{{cite book|first=Jerald T.|last=Milanich|title=Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe|date=1995|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=0-8130-1360-7}}</ref>{{rp|1–2, 82}} Other tribes in Florida at the time of first contact included the [[Ais (tribe)|Ais]], [[Calusa]], [[Jaega]], [[Mayaimi]], [[Tequesta]], and [[Tocobaga]].
The populations of all of these tribes decreased markedly during the period of Spanish control of Florida, mostly due to epidemics of newly introduced [[infectious diseases]], to which the Native Americans had no natural [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]]. Beginning late in the 17th century, when most of the [[indigenous peoples]] were already much reduced in population, [[Apalachicola Province#Attacks on Spanish missions|peoples]] from areas to the north of Florida, supplied with arms and occasionally accompanied by [[white (people)|white]] colonists from the [[Province of Carolina]], raided throughout Florida. They burned villages, wounded many of the inhabitants and carried captives back to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charles Towne]] to be sold into [[slavery]]. Most of the villages in Florida were abandoned, and the survivors sought refuge at [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] or in isolated spots around the state. Many tribes became extinct during this period and by the end of the 18th century.<ref name=milanich95/>{{rp|213–228}}
Some of the Apalachee eventually reached Louisiana, where they survived as a distinct group for at least another century. The Spanish evacuated the few surviving members of the Florida tribes to [[Cuba]] in 1763 when Spain transferred the territory of Florida to the [[British Empire]] following the latter's victory against France in the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref name=milanich95/>{{rp|227–231}} In the aftermath, the [[Seminole]], originally an offshoot of the [[Creek people]] who absorbed other groups, developed as a distinct tribe in Florida during the 18th century through the process of [[ethnogenesis]]. They have three federally recognized tribes: the largest is the [[Seminole Nation of Oklahoma]], formed of descendants since removal in the 1830s; others are the smaller [[Seminole Tribe of Florida]] and the [[Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida]].
==Colonial battleground==
===First Spanish rule (1513–1763)===
[[File:RUIDIAZ(1893) 1.083 JUAN PONCE DE LEÓN.jpg|thumb|200px|left|[[Juan Ponce de León]] was one of the first Europeans to set foot in the current United States; he led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.]]
{{Main article|Spanish Florida}}
[[File:Cantino Map - 1502 - Florida.jpg|thumb|200px|A depiction of what might be Florida from the 1502 [[Cantino planisphere|Cantino map]] ]]
[[File:Florida worship french column 1591.jpeg|thumb|200px|Timucua Indians at a column erected by the French in 1562]]
[[File:1527-TeraFlorida.jpg|thumb|200px|A 1527 map by [[Vesconte Maggiolo]] showing the east coast of North America with "Tera Florida" at the top and "Lavoradore" at the bottom.]]
[[File:Florida Moyne 1591.jpeg|thumb|200px|A 1591 map of Florida by [[Jacques le Moyne|Jacques le Moyne de Morgues]].]]
[[Juan Ponce de León]], a famous Spanish conqueror and explorer, is usually given credit for being the first European to sight Florida in 1513, but he probably had predecessors. Florida and much of the nearby coast is depicted in the [[Cantino planisphere]], an early world map which was surreptitiously copied in 1502 from the most current [[Portuguese discoveries|Portuguese sailing charts]] and smuggled into Italy a full decade before Ponce sailed north from [[Puerto Rico]] on his voyage of exploration. Ponce de León may not have even been the first Spaniard to go ashore in Florida; slave traders may have secretly raided native villages before Ponce arrived, as he encountered at least one indigenous tribesman who spoke Spanish.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Hale G.|last2=Gottlob|first2=Marc|date=1978 |editor-last1=Milanich|editor-first1=Jerald|editor-last2=Proctor |editor-first2=Samuel |title=Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period'|publisher=University Presses of Florida|chapter=Spanish-Indian Relationships: Synoptic History and Archaeological Evidence, 1500–1763|isbn=978-0-8130-0535-5}}</ref> However, Ponce's 1513 expedition to Florida was the first open and official one. He also gave Florida its name, which means "full of flowers."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/juan-ponce-de-leon|title=Juan Ponce de Léon|website=History|publisher=A&E Television Networks|access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> A dubious legend states that Ponce de León was searching for the [[Fountain of Youth]] on the island of Bimini, based on information from natives.<ref name="Peck">{{cite web|author=Peck, Douglas T |title=Misconceptions and Myths Related to the Fountain of Youth and Juan Ponce de Leon's 1513 Exploration Voyage |url=http://www.newworldexplorersinc.org/FountainofYouth.pdf |publisher=New World Explorers, Inc |access-date=2008-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409062720/http://www.newworldexplorersinc.org/FountainofYouth.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ponce-de-leon-never-searched-for-the-fountain-of-youth-72629888/?no-ist | title=Ponce de Leon Never Searched for the Fountain of Youth|date=2013|author=Matthew Shaer|publisher=Smithsonian Magazine}}</ref>
On March 3, 1513, Juan Ponce de León organized and equipped three ships for an expedition departing from "[[Aguada, Puerto Rico|Punta Aguada]]," Puerto Rico. The expedition included 200 people, including women and free black people.
Although it is often stated that he sighted the peninsula for the first time on March 27, 1513, and thought it was an island, he probably saw one of the Bahamas at that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.floridahistory.org/floridians/conquis.htm|title=FLORIDA OF THE CONQUISTADOR|date=n.d.|publisher=FloridaHistory.org|access-date=June 17, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615120550/http://www.floridahistory.org/floridians/conquis.htm |archive-date=June 15, 2006 }}</ref> He went ashore on Florida's east coast during the Spanish Easter feast, [[Pascua Florida]], on April 7 and named the land ''La Pascua de la Florida.'' After briefly exploring the land south of present-day [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]], the expedition sailed south to the bottom of the Florida peninsula, through the [[Florida Keys]], and up the west coast as far north as [[Charlotte Harbor, Florida|Charlotte Harbor]], where they briefly skirmished with the [[Calusa]] before heading back to Puerto Rico.
From 1513 onward, the land became known as ''La Florida''. After 1630, and throughout the 18th century, Tegesta (after the [[Tequesta]] tribe) was an alternate name of choice for the Florida peninsula following publication of a map by the Dutch cartographer [[Hessel Gerritsz]] in [[Joannes de Laet]]'s ''History of the New World''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/floridamaps/view_image.php?image_name=dlp00020000020001001&group=sp|title=Florida et Regiones Vicinae|date=n.d.|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=2013-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii14003.htm|title="Marvellous countries and lands" Notable Maps of Florida, 1507–1846|date=n.d.|publisher=Broward|last=Ehrenberg|first=Ralph E.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803204621/http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii14003.htm|archive-date=August 3, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="De Bow's Review, Vol. XXII Third Series Vol. II">{{Cite book|title=De Bow's Review|volume=XXII|series=Third Series Vol. II|last= De Bow|first=J. D. B. |author-link=James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow |year=1857 |location=Washington, D.C. and New Orleans |pages= 303–305|quote=The name Florida, sometimes expanded to cover more of the present-day southeastern U.S., remained the most commonly used Spanish term, however, throughout the entire period.}}</ref>
Further Spanish attempts to explore and colonize Florida were disastrous. Ponce de León returned to the Charlotte Harbor area in 1521 with equipment and settlers to start a colony, but was soon driven off by hostile Calusa, and de León died in Cuba from wounds received in the fighting. [[Pánfilo de Narváez]]'s expedition explored Florida's west coast in 1528, but his violent demands for gold and food led to hostile relations with the [[Tocobaga]] and other native groups. Facing starvation and unable to find his support ships, Narváez attempted return to Mexico via rafts, but all were lost at sea and only four members of the expedition survived. [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] landed in Florida in 1539 and began a multi-year trek through what is now the southeastern United States in which he found no gold and lost his life. In 1559 [[Tristán de Luna y Arellano]] established the first settlement in [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]] but, after a violent hurricane destroyed the area, it was abandoned in 1561.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Archaeology of colonial Pensacola|last=Bense|first=Judith Ann|year=1999|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn= 978-0-8130-1661-0}}</ref>{{rp|6}}
The horse, which the natives had hunted to extinction 10,000 years ago,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historical-museum.org/archaeology/first_arrivals/first_arrivals.htm |title=First Arrivals: The Archaeology of Southern Florida |publisher=Historical-museum.org |access-date=September 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326120957/http://www.historical-museum.org/archaeology/first_arrivals/first_arrivals.htm |archive-date=March 26, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was reintroduced into North America by the European explorers, and into Florida in 1538.<ref name = IberianOrigins>{{cite journal|last=Luís|first= Cristina|year=2006|title=Iberian Origins of New World Horse Breeds|journal=[[Journal of Heredity]]|volume=97|issue=2|pages=107–113|doi=10.1093/jhered/esj020|pmid=16489143|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}</ref> As the animals were lost or stolen, they began to become feral.
In [[Timeline of Florida History|1564]], [[René Goulaine de Laudonnière]] founded [[Fort Caroline]] in what is now [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], as a haven for [[Huguenot]] Protestant refugees from religious persecution in France.<ref name=RowlandMooreRogers>{{cite book|last1=Rowland|first1=Lawrence S.|last2=Moore|first2=Alexander|last3=Rogers|first3=George C.|title = The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514–1861|edition= 1996| publisher=University of South Carolina Press| isbn= 978-1-57003-090-1|year=1996}}</ref>{{rp|26}} Further down the coast, in 1565 [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]] founded San Agustín ([[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]])<ref name=RowlandMooreRogers/>{{rp|27}} which is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in any U.S. state. It is second oldest only to [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], in the United States' current territory. From this base of operations, the Spanish began building [[Spanish missions in Florida|Catholic missions]].
All colonial cities were founded near the mouths of rivers. St. Augustine was founded where the [[Matanzas Inlet]] permitted access to the [[Matanzas River]]. Other cities were founded on the sea with similar inlets: Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Pensacola, Tampa, Fort Myers, and others.<ref name=ft150628>{{Cite news | first=Hank | last=Fishkind | title=Transportation routes transform landscape, economy | newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 28A | date=June 28, 2015 }}</ref><!---softcopy not yet available on author's site, not paper-->
On September 20, 1565, Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline, killing most of the French Huguenot defenders.<ref name=RowlandMooreRogers/>{{rp|28}} Two years later, [[Dominique de Gourgue]] recaptured the settlement for France, this time slaughtering the Spanish defenders.
St. Augustine became the most important settlement in Florida. Little more than a fort, it was frequently attacked and burned, with most residents killed or fled. It was notably devastated in 1586, when English sea captain and sometime pirate Sir [[Francis Drake]] plundered and burned the city. Catholic missionaries used St. Augustine as a base of operations to establish over 100 far-flung missions throughout Florida.<ref name="Han1990">{{cite book|first=John H.|last=Hann|title=Summary Guide to Spanish Florida Missions and Visitas|url={{Google books|8DYLAAAAYAAJ|page=97|plainurl=yes}}|year=1990|publisher=Academy of American Franciscan History|isbn=9780883822852|page=97}}</ref> They converted 26,000 natives by 1655, but a revolt in 1656 and an epidemic in 1659 proved devastating. Pirate attacks and British raids were unrelenting, and the town was burned to the ground several times until Spain fortified it with the [[Castillo de San Marcos]] (1672) and [[Fort Matanzas]] (1742).
African slaves used primarily for labor were first introduced to Spanish Florida as early as 1580, when officials asked for permission to import slaves to bolster the workforce in and around St. Augustine. However, due to restrictions by the Spanish crown, the population of African slaves in Florida remained relatively low until around the period of British control in 1763.<ref name="Smith2017">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Julia F. |title=Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antelbellum Florida, 1821-1860 |date=2017 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville, FL |isbn=9781947372627 |page=9}}</ref>
Throughout the 17th century, English settlers in [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]] and [[Province of Carolina|Carolina]] gradually pushed the boundaries of Spanish territory south, while the French settlements along the [[Mississippi River]] encroached on the western borders of the Spanish claim. In 1702, Governor of Carolina [[James Moore Sr.|James Moore]] and allied [[Yamasee]] and [[Creek people|Creek Indians]] attacked and razed the town of St. Augustine, but they could not gain control of the fort. In 1704, Moore and his soldiers began burning Spanish missions in north Florida and executing Indians friendly with the Spanish. The collapse of the Spanish mission system and the defeat of the Spanish-allied [[Apalachee]] Indians (the [[Apalachee massacre]]) opened Florida up to [[Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas|slave raids]], which reached to the Florida Keys and decimated the native population. The [[Yamasee War]] of 1715–1717 in the Carolinas resulted in numerous Indian refugees, such as the Yamasee, moving south to Florida. In 1719, the French captured the Spanish settlement at Pensacola.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717|last=Gallay|first=Alan|year=2002|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-10193-7|pages=144–147}}</ref>
====Fugitive slaves and conflicts====
The border between the British colony of Georgia and Spanish Florida was never clearly defined, and was the subject of constant harassment in both directions, until it was ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1821. The [[Monarchy of Spain|Spanish Crown]], beginning with [[Charles II of Spain|King Charles II]] in 1693, encouraged [[Fugitive slaves in the United States|fugitive slaves]] from the [[Thirteen Colonies|British North American colonies]] to escape and offered them freedom and refuge if they converted to Catholicism. This was well known through word of mouth in the colonies of Georgia and South Carolina, and hundreds of [[Slavery in the colonial history of the United States|enslaved Africans]] escaped to their freedom, which infuriated colonists in the British North American colonies. They settled in a buffer community north of St. Augustine, called [[Fort Mose Historic State Park|Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose]], the first settlement made of [[Free people of color|free black people]] in North America.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Landers|first=Jane|date=January 1984|title=Spanish Sanctuary: Fugitives in Florida, 1687–1790|url=https://ucf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25466/datastream/OBJ/view|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=62|issue=3|pages=296–313|via=University of Central Florida Digital Library}}</ref>
During this period, the British (including their North American colonies) repeatedly attacked Spanish Florida, especially in 1702 and again in 1740, when a large force under [[James Oglethorpe]] sailed south from Georgia and [[Siege of St. Augustine (1740)|besieged St. Augustine]], but was unable to capture the [[Castillo de San Marcos]]. The [[1755 Lisbon earthquake]] triggered a [[tsunami]] that would have struck Central Florida with an estimated {{convert|1.5|m|sp=us|adj=on}} wave.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110321/NEWS01/110321001/Large-margins-safety-Florida-s-nuclear-plants |title=Large margins of safety in Florida's nuclear plants|access-date=November 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110326212607/http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110321/NEWS01/110321001/Large-margins-safety-Florida-s-nuclear-plants |archive-date=March 26, 2011 }}</ref>
Creek and Seminole Native Americans, who had established buffer settlements in Florida at the invitation of the Spanish government, also welcomed any fugitive slaves which reached their settlements. In 1771, Governor [[John Moultrie (politician)|John Moultrie]] wrote to the [[Board of Trade]] that "it has been a practice for a good while past, for negroes to run away from their Masters, and get into the Indian towns, from whence it proved very difficult to get them back." When British colonial officials in Florida pressed the Seminole to return runaway slaves, they replied that they had "merely given hungry people food, and invited the slaveholders to catch the runaways themselves."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Miller|first=E|date=2001|title=St. Augustine's British Years|journal=The Journal of the St. Augustine Historical Society|pages=38}}</ref>
===British rule (1763–1783)===
{{Main article|East Florida|West Florida}}
[[File:West Florida Map 1767.svg|thumb|right|300px|The expanded West Florida territory in 1767.]]
In [[Timeline of Florida History|1763]], Spain traded Florida to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] for control of [[Havana]], Cuba, which [[Battle of Havana (1762)|had been captured]] by the British during the [[Seven Years' War]]. It was part of a large expansion of British territory following the [[Great Britain in the Seven Years' War|country's victory in the Seven Years' War]]. Almost the entire Spanish population left, taking along most of the remaining indigenous population to Cuba. The British divided the territory into [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]].<ref name="http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/docs/f/florbrit.htm">{{cite web|author=Florida Center for Instructional Technology |url=http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/docs/f/florbrit.htm |title=Floripedia: Florida: As a British Colony |publisher=Fcit.usf.edu |access-date=2009-10-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title = A History of Florida|first1= Caroline Mays|last1= Brevard|first2= Henry Eastman|last2 = Bennett|page=77|url = https://archive.org/details/historyofflorida00brevar|location = New York|publisher = American Book Company|date = 1904}}</ref> The British soon constructed the [[King's Road (Florida)|King's Road]] connecting St. Augustine to [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]]. The road crossed the [[St. Johns River]] at a narrow point, which the [[Seminole]] called ''Wacca Pilatka'' and the British named "Cow Ford", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.<ref>{{cite book |title= Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage |last= Wood |first= Wayne |year= 1992 |publisher= [[University Press of Florida]] |isbn= 978-0-8130-0953-7|page= 22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= The Indian Miscellany |last= Beach |first= William Wallace |year= 1877 |publisher= J. Munsel|page=125|url= https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lqqAAAAAIAAJ|access-date= July 12, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Wells |first=Judy|title=City had humble beginnings on the banks of the St. Johns|url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/030200/ent_S0302FIR.html|access-date=July 2, 2011|newspaper=The Florida Times-Union|date=March 2, 2000|url-status=dead|archive-date=2000-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001026115121/http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/030200/ent_S0302FIR.html}}</ref> The British government gave land grants to officers and soldiers who had fought in the [[French and Indian War]] in order to encourage settlement. In order to induce settlers to move to the two new colonies reports of the natural wealth of Florida were published in England. A large number of British colonists who were "energetic and of good character" moved to Florida, mostly coming from [[South Carolina]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and England, though there was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of [[Bermuda]]. This would be the first permanent English-speaking population in what is now [[Duval County, Florida|Duval County]], [[Baker County, Florida|Baker County]], [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns County]], and [[Nassau County, Florida|Nassau County]]. The British built good public roads and introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo, and fruits, as well the export of lumber. As a result of these initiatives northeastern Florida prospered economically in a way it never did under Spanish rule. Furthermore, the British governors were directed to call general assemblies as soon as possible to make laws for the Floridas and in the meantime they were, with the advice of councils, to establish courts. This would be the first introduction of much of the English-derived legal system which Florida still has today, including [[Jury Trial|trial by jury]], [[habeas corpus]], and county-based government.<ref>{{cite book|title = A History of Florida|first1= Caroline Mays|last1= Brevard |first2= Henry Eastman|last2 = Bennett|url = https://archive.org/details/historyofflorida00brevar |location = New York|publisher = American Book Company|date = 1904}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Mowat|first=Charles L.|date=1940|title=The Land Policy in British East Florida|journal=Agricultural History|volume=14|number=2|pages=75–77}}</ref>
A [[Scottish people|Scottish]] settler named Dr. [[Andrew Turnbull (colonist)|Andrew Turnbull]] transplanted around 1,500 [[indentured]] settlers, from [[Menorca]], [[Majorca]], [[Ibiza]], [[Smyrna]], [[Crete]], [[Mani Peninsula]], and [[Sicily]], to grow [[hemp]], [[sugarcane]], [[indigo]], and to produce [[rum]]. Settled at [[New Smyrna Beach, Florida|New Smyrna]], within months the colony suffered major losses primarily due to insect-borne diseases and Native American raids. Most crops did not do well in the sandy Florida soil. Those that survived rarely equaled the quality produced in other colonies. The colonists tired of their servitude and Turnbull's rule. On several occasions, he used African [[slaves]] to whip his unruly settlers. The settlement collapsed and the survivors fled to safety with the British authorities in St. Augustine. Their descendants survive to this day, as does the name New Smyrna.
In 1767, the British moved the northern boundary of West Florida to a line extending from the mouth of the [[Yazoo River]] east to the [[Chattahoochee River]] (32° 28′north latitude), consisting of approximately the lower third of the present states of [[Mississippi]] and [[Alabama]]. During this time, Creek Indians migrated into Florida and formed the Seminole tribe.
====Florida in the American Revolutionary War====
{{Anchor|Florida in the American Revolutionary War|Florida in the American Revolution}}
When representatives from thirteen North American colonies [[United States Declaration of Independence|declared independence from Great Britain]] in 1776, many Floridians condemned the action. East and West Florida were backwater outposts whose populations included a large percentage of British military personnel and their families. There was little trade in or out of the colonies, so they were largely unaffected by the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act Crisis of 1765]] and other taxes and policies which brought other British colonies together in common interest against a shared threat. Thus, a majority of Florida residents were [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]], and both East and West Florida declined to send representatives to any sessions of the [[Continental Congress]].
Governor [[Patrick Tonyn]] raised four black militia units to protect East Florida. Enslaved blacks who fought for the British Crown were promised freedom. However, due to the passing of stricter slave codes and the efforts of slave owners, few of those who fought were granted their freedom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rivers |first1=Larry E. |title=Slavery in Florida : territorial days to emancipation |date=2000 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville |isbn=9780813018133 |page=6}}</ref>
During the [[American Revolutionary War]], Florida Loyalists fighting for the English Crown participated in raids against the Patriot forces in South Carolina and Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-04 |title=Decisions and destiny - Florida Humanities |url=https://floridahumanities.org/decisions-and-destiny/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |language=en-US}}</ref> Continental forces attempted to invade East Florida early in the conflict, but they were defeated on May 17, 1777, at the [[Battle of Thomas Creek]] in today's [[Nassau County, Florida|Nassau County]] when American Colonel John Baker surrendered to the British.<ref name="upperstjohn2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.upperstjohn.com/people/johnbaker.htm |title=John Baker |publisher=Upperstjohn.com |date=June 6, 2004 |access-date=2009-10-02}}</ref> Another American incursion into the same area was repelled at the [[Battle of Alligator Bridge]] on June 30, 1778.
The two Floridas remained loyal to Great Britain throughout the war. However, Spain, participating indirectly in the war as an ally of France, captured [[Battle of Pensacola (1781)|Pensacola]] from the British in 1781. The [[Peace of Paris (1783)]] ended the Revolutionary War and returned all of Florida to Spanish control, but without specifying the boundaries. The Spanish wanted the expanded northern boundary Britain had made to West Florida, while the new United States demanded the old boundary at the [[31st parallel north]]. This [[West Florida Controversy|border controversy]] was resolved in the 1795 [[Treaty of San Lorenzo]] when Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the boundary.
====Departure of the British====
Just as most residents of Spanish Florida had left when Britain gained possession of the territory in 1763, the impending return to Spanish control in 1783 saw a vast exodus of those who had settled in the area over the previous twenty years. This included many [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]] who had fled there during the American War of Independence and had caused East Florida's population to swell considerably if temporarily.<ref name=Fhq>{{cite journal|last=May|first=Philip S.|year=1944|title=Zephaniah Kingsley, Nonconformist (1765–1843)|journal=[[Florida Historical Quarterly]]|volume=23|number=3|url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol23/iss3/3|pages=145–159, at p. 145}}</ref>
===Second Spanish rule (1783–1821)===
{{Main article|Spanish Florida#Second Spanish period}}
Spain's reoccupation of Florida involved the arrival of some officials and soldiers at St. Augustine and Pensacola but very few new settlers. Most British residents had departed, leaving much of the territory depopulated and unguarded. North Florida continued to be the home of the newly amalgamated black–native American Seminole culture and a haven for people escaping slavery in the southern United States. Settlers in southern Georgia demanded that Spain control the Seminole population and capture runaway slaves, to which Spain replied that the slave owners were welcome to recapture the runaways themselves.
Americans began moving into northern Florida from the backwoods of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[South Carolina]]. Though technically not allowed by the Spanish authorities, the Spanish were never able to effectively police the border region, and a mix of American settlers, escaped slaves, and Native Americans would continue to migrate into Florida unchecked. The American migrants, mixing with the few remaining settlers from Florida's British period, would be the progenitors of the population known as [[Florida Cracker]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cracker: Cracker Culture in Florida History|last=Ste Claire|first=Dana M.|publisher=University Press of Florida|date=2006|isbn=978-0-8130-3028-9}}</ref>
====Republic of West Florida====
{{main article|Republic of West Florida}}
Ignoring Spanish territorial claims, American settlers, along with some remaining British settlers, established a permanent foothold in the western end of West Florida during the first decade of the 1800s. In the summer of 1810, they began planning a rebellion against Spanish rule which became open revolt in September. The rebels overcame the Spanish garrison at [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]] and proclaimed the "Free and Independent Republic of West Florida" on September 23. (None of it was within what is today the state of Florida.) Their flag was the original "[[Bonnie Blue Flag]]", a single white star on a blue field. On October 27, 1810, most of the Republic of West Florida was annexed by proclamation of President [[James Madison]], who claimed that the region was included in the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and incorporated it into the newly formed [[Territory of Orleans]]. Some leaders of the newly declared republic objected to the takeover, but all had deferred to arriving American troops by mid-December 1810. The [[Florida Parishes]] of the modern state of [[Louisiana]] include most of the territory claimed by the short-lived Republic of West Florida.
Spain sided with Great Britain during the [[War of 1812]], and the U.S. annexed the [[Mobile District]] of West Florida to the [[Mississippi Territory]] in May 1812. The surrender of Spanish forces at [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] in April 1813 officially established American control over the area, which was eventually divided between the states of [[Alabama]] and [[Mississippi]].
====Republic of East Florida====
{{main article|Republic of East Florida}}
In March 1812, a small independent band of Americans took control of [[Amelia Island]] on the Atlantic coast. They declared that they were now an independent republic free from Spanish rule in what would become known as the [[Patriot War (Florida)|Patriot War]]. The revolt was organized by [[George Mathews (Georgia)|General George Mathews]] of the U.S. Army, who had been authorized to secretly negotiate with the Spanish governor for American acquisition of East Florida. Instead, Mathews organized a group of frontiersmen in Georgia, who arrived at the Spanish town of [[Fernandina, Florida|Fernandina]] and demanded the surrender of all of Amelia Island. Upon declaring the island a republic, he led his volunteers along with a contingent of regular army troops south towards St. Augustine. Upon hearing of Mathews' actions, the government became alarmed that he would provoke war with Spain. Secretary of State [[James Monroe]] ordered Matthews to return all captured territory to Spanish authorities. After several months of negotiations on the withdrawal of the Americans and compensation for their foraging through the countryside, the countries came to an agreement, and Amelia Island was returned to the Spanish in May 1813.<ref>James G. Cusick, ''The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida'' (University of Georgia Press, 2007). </ref>
A similar filibuster action took place in September of 1817, when the Scottish veteran and con-man [[Gregor MacGregor]] led a private force and captured Amelia Island and declared it part of the [[Republic of the Floridas]]. By December of 1817, the United States seized the island.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Doyle |first1=Patrick W. |title=Unmasked: The Author of "Narrative of a Voyage to the Spanish Main in the Ship "Two Friends" |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=Fall 1999 |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=192–193 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25534 |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>
====First Seminole War====
{{main articles|Seminole Wars|Black Seminoles}}
The unguarded Florida border was an increasing source of tension late in the second Spanish period. Seminoles based in [[East Florida]] had been accused of raiding Georgia settlements, and settlers were angered by the stream of slaves escaping into Florida, where they were welcomed. [[Negro Fort]], an abandoned British fortification in the far west of the territory, was manned by both indigenous and black people. The [[United States Army]] would lead increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by [[Andrew Jackson]] that became known later as the [[First Seminole War]]. Jackson took temporary control of Pensacola in 1818, and though he withdrew due to Spanish objections, the United States continued to effectively control much of West Florida. According to Secretary of State [[John Quincy Adams]], this was necessary because Florida had become "a derelict open to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States, and serving no other earthly purpose than as a post of annoyance to them."<ref>{{cite book|first = Alexander |last =Deconde|title =A History of American Foreign Policy|date=1963|page= 127|publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons}}</ref>
====End of Spanish control====
{{main article|Adams-Onis Treaty}}
After Jackson's incursions, Spain decided that Florida had become too much of a burden, as it could not afford to send settlers or garrisons to properly occupy the land and was receiving very little revenue from the territory. Madrid therefore decided to cede Florida to the United States. The transfer was negotiated as part of the [[Adams–Onís Treaty]], which also settled several boundary disputes between Spanish colonies and the U.S. in exchange for American payment of $5,000,000 in claims against the Spanish government.<ref name=tebeau>{{cite book|last=Tebeau|first=Charlton W.| title = A History of Florida, Third Edition|edition=1999|year=1971|publisher=University of Miami Press|isbn=978-0870243387}}</ref>{{rp|156}} The treaty was signed in 1819 and took effect in 1821, and the United States formally took possession of Florida on July 17, 1821.
==Territory and statehood==
===Florida Territory (1822–1845)===
{{Main article|Florida Territory}} {{See also|Seminole Wars}}
[[File:Andrew Jackson.jpg|thumb|150px|Andrew Jackson served as the first military [[Governor of Florida]].]]
[[Florida Territory]] became an [[organized territory]] of the United States on March 30, 1822. The U.S. merged [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]] (although the majority of West Florida was annexed to [[Territory of Orleans]] and [[Mississippi Territory]]), and established a new capital in [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]], conveniently located halfway between the East Florida capital of St. Augustine and the West Florida capital of Pensacola. The boundaries of Florida's first two counties, [[Escambia County, Florida|Escambia]] and [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns]], approximately coincided with the boundaries of West and East Florida respectively.
The free black and Indigenous slaves, Black Seminoles, living near St. Augustine, fled to Havana, Cuba to avoid coming under US control. Some Seminole also abandoned their settlements and moved further south.<ref>{{cite book|last=Simmons|first=William H.|title= Notices of East Florida : with an account of the Seminole nation of Indians|year=1822|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|page=42|oclc=1049959679|url=https://archive.org/details/noticesofeastflo00simm/page/n6/mode/2up}}</ref> Hundreds of [[Black Seminoles]] and fugitive slaves escaped in the early nineteenth century from [[Cape Florida]] to [[The Bahamas]], where they settled on [[Andros Island]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mulroy|first=Kevin|title=The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Race and Culture in the American West)|year=2007|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|page=26|isbn=978-0806153476}}</ref>
[[File:Osceola.png|thumb|Seminole leader [[Osceola]].]]
As settlement increased, pressure grew on the United States government to remove the Indians from their lands in Florida. Many settlers in Florida developed plantation agriculture, similar to other areas of the Deep South. To the consternation of new landowners, the Seminoles harbored and integrated runaway black slaves, and clashes between whites and Indians grew with the influx of new settlers.
In 1832, the United States government signed the [[Treaty of Payne's Landing]] with some of the Seminole chiefs, promising them lands west of the Mississippi River if they agreed to leave Florida voluntarily. Many Seminoles left then, while those who remained prepared to defend their claims to the land. White settlers pressured the government to remove all of the Indians, by force if necessary, and in 1835, the U.S. Army arrived to enforce the treaty.
The [[Second Seminole War]] began at the end of 1835 with the [[Dade Battle]], when Seminoles ambushed Army troops marching from [[Fort Brooke]] (Tampa) to reinforce [[Fort King]] (Ocala).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dade-report.jpg|title=From Florida|publisher=Daily National Intelligencer|date=January 27, 1836|url-status=live|archive-date=2011-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714102456/https://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dade-report.jpg}}</ref> They killed or mortally wounded all but one of the 110 troops. Between 900 and 1,500 Seminole warriors effectively employed guerrilla tactics against United States Army troops for seven years. Osceola, a charismatic young war leader, came to symbolize the war and the Seminoles after he was arrested by Brigadier General [[Joseph Marion Hernandez]] while negotiating under a white truce flag in October 1837, by order of General [[Thomas Jesup]]. First imprisoned at [[Fort Marion]], he died of [[malaria]] at [[Fort Moultrie]] in [[South Carolina]] less than three months after his capture. The war ended in 1842. The U.S. government is estimated to have spent between $20 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|20000000|1842|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) and $40 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|40000000|1842|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) on the war; at the time, this was considered a large sum. Almost all of the Seminoles were forcibly exiled to Creek lands west of the Mississippi; several hundred remained in the [[Everglades]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|156}}
===Statehood (1845)===
[[File:Florida Capitol 1845.jpg|thumb|250px|The brick [[Florida State Capitol|Capitol]] as built in 1845.]]
On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America. Its first governor was [[William Dunn Moseley]].
Almost half the state's population were enslaved African Americans working on large cotton and sugar [[Plantations in the American South|plantations]], between the [[Apalachicola River|Apalachicola]] and [[Suwannee River|Suwannee]] rivers in the north central part of the state.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|158}} Like the people who owned them, many slaves had come from the coastal areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. They were part of the [[Gullah]]–[[Geechee]] culture of the [[Lowcountry]]. Others were enslaved African Americans from the upper South who had been sold to traders taking slaves to the deep South.{{sfn|Smith|2017|pp=9–11}}
In the 1850s, with the potential transfer of ownership of federal land to the state, including Seminole land, the federal government decided to convince the remaining Seminoles to emigrate. The Army reactivated Fort Harvie and renamed it to [[Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers]]. Increased Army patrols led to hostilities, and eventually a Seminole attack on Fort Myers which killed two United States soldiers.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|155}} The [[Third Seminole War]] lasted from 1855 to 1858 which ended with most of the remaining Seminoles, mostly women and children moving to Indian Territory. In 1859, another 75 Seminoles surrendered and were sent to the West, but a small number continued to live in the Everglades.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|156}}
On the eve of the Civil War, Florida had the smallest population of the Southern states. It was invested in plantation agriculture, which was dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans. By 1860, Florida had 140,424 people, of whom 44% were enslaved and fewer than 1,000 were [[free black|free people of color]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|157}} Florida also had one of the highest per capita murder rates prior to the Civil War, thanks to a weakened central government, the institution of slavery, and a troubled political history.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Denham|first1=James M.|last2=Roth|first2=Randolph|year=2007|title=Why Was Antebellum Florida Murderous? A Quantitative Analysis of Homicide in Florida, 1821–1861|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=86|number=2|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25594611|pages=216–217|jstor=25594611 }}</ref>
==Civil War through late 19th century==
===American Civil War===
{{Main article|Florida in the American Civil War}}
[[File:Battle of Olustee.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Battle of Olustee]] was the only major Civil War battle fought in Florida.]]
Following [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[1860 United States presidential election in Florida|election in 1860]], Florida joined other Southern states in seceding from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. [[Secession]] took place January 10, 1861, and after less than a month as an independent republic, Florida became one of the founding seven states of the [[Confederate States of America]]. During the Civil War, Florida was an important supply route for the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]]. Therefore, Union forces operated a [[naval blockade]] around the entire state, and Union troops occupied major ports such as [[Cedar Key, Florida|Cedar Key]], [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Key West, Florida|Key West]], and [[Pensacola]]. Though numerous skirmishes occurred in Florida, including the [[Battle of Natural Bridge]], the [[Battle of Marianna]] and the [[Battle of Gainesville]], the only major battle was the [[Battle of Olustee]] near [[Lake City, Florida|Lake City]].
In 1861, at the start of the war, the state had a population of roughly 140,000, with half of that being enslaved African Americans.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Weitz |editor1-first=Seth A. |editor2-last=Sheppard |editor2-first=Jonathan C. |title=A Forgotten Front: Florida during the Civil War Era |date=2018 |publisher=University Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, AL. |isbn=9780817319823 |page=11}}</ref> In spite of the state's relatively small population, Florida did send several units to fight up north, most notably the [[1st Florida Infantry Regiment|1st Florida]], the [[8th Florida Infantry Regiment|8th Florida]] and the [[3rd Florida Infantry Regiment]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sheppard |first1=Jonathan C. |title=By the noble daring of her sons : the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee |date=2012 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, Ala. |isbn=9780817317072 |page=28}}</ref>
Most of the population were not enthusiastic about the secession, and the Unionist movement that was a minority in Florida between 1861 and 1862 increased notably during the last three years of the war, especially in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]], [[Sarasota, Florida|Sarasota]] and most of South and Northwest Florida, where [[List of Florida Union Civil War units|Unionist regiments]] were formed. At the time of the end of the war, most Floridians deserted the Confederate Army and the government in Florida was under anarchy until the Union troops returned to Florida.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy" |url=https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/cvl_war/cvl_war1.htm#:~:text=Florida%27s%20greatest%20contribution%20to%20the,supplies%20could%20get%20safely%20northward. |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=fcit.usf.edu}}</ref>
===Reconstruction era===
{{Main article|Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era}}
During the [[Reconstruction era]] that followed the Civil War, [[Republican Party (United States)|moderate Republicans]] took charge of the state, first led by [[Harrison Reed (politician)| Governor Harrison Reed]]. In order to combat the increasing growing [[Ku Klux Klan]], Reed mobilized black and white militias and purchased two thousand rifles in New York with which to arm them. However, the train carrying the arms was attacked by members of the Klan and the weapons were lost.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burnett |first1=Gene M. |title=Florida's past : people and events that shaped the state. Volume 2 |date=1988 |publisher=Pineapple Press |location=Sarasota, FL |isbn=9780910923590 |page=127}}</ref>
The moderate regime plunged into complicated maneuvering and infighting. It drafted a conservative constitution. The extended contest between liberals and radicals inside the Republican Party alienated so many voters that the Democrats took power. They rigged elections, [[disenfranchisement|disenfranchised]] black voters, and made the state a reliable part of the "[[Solid South]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Shofner|first=Jerrell|editor-last=Olsen|editor-first=Otto|date=1980|title=Reconstruction and Redemption in the South|chapter=Florida: A Failure of Moderate Republicanism|publisher=LSU Press|pages=13–46}}</ref>
A [[Florida Constitution#The 1868 Florida Constitution|state convention was held in 1868 to rewrite the constitution]].<ref name="DuBois">{{cite book |last=Du Bois|first=W.E.B.|date=1992|orig-date=1935|type=Reprint|title=Black Reconstruction in America: 1860–1880|publisher=The Free Press|pages=513, 515}}</ref> After meeting the requirements of Congress, including ratification of the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|13th]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution]], Florida was readmitted to the Union on July 4, 1868.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cox |first1=Merlin G. |title=Military Reconstruction in Florida |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=January 1968 |volume=46 |issue=3 |page=232 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22411 |access-date=8 January 2023}}</ref> This did not end the struggle for political power among groups in the state. Southern whites objected to freedmen's political participation and complained of illiterate representatives to the state legislature. But of the six members who could not read or write during the seven years of Republican rule, four were white.<ref name="DuBois"/>
After [[Compromise of 1877|Federal troops left the South in 1877]], conservative white Democrats engaged in [[voter suppression]] and intimidation, regaining control of the [[Florida state legislature|state legislature]]. This was accomplished partly through violent actions by white paramilitary groups targeting freedmen and their allies to discourage them from voting.
Thanks to government enticements, entrepreneurs like [[Henry Flagler]], [[Henry B. Plant]], and [[Hamilton Disston]], invested heavily in Florida, especially its infrastructure. The development of railroads and other transportation in the state led the population to almost double in the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knetsch |first1=Joe |title=Florida in the Spanish-American War |date=2011 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=9781609490881 |pages=18–19}}</ref>
===Disenfranchisement===
{{See also|List of Jim Crow law examples by State#Florida|Black Codes (United States)#Florida}}
From 1885 to 1889, after regaining power, the white-dominated state legislature passed statutes to impose [[poll tax]]es and other barriers to [[voter registration]] and voting, to eliminate voting by black people and poor whites. These two groups had threatened white Democratic power with a [[populism|populist]] coalition. As these groups were stripped from voter rolls, white Democrats established power in a one-party state, as happened across the South.
In this period, white violence rose against black people, particularly in the form of [[lynching]]s, which reached a peak around the turn of the century.<ref name="davis"/>
The [[Great Freeze]] of 1894–5 ruined citrus crops, which had a detrimental ripple effect on the economy of Central Florida in particular.<ref>{{cite book |last=McMurry|first=Charles Alexander|date=1908|title=Type Studies from the Geography of the United States|publisher=Macmillan & Company|page=81}}</ref> By 1900 the state's African Americans numbered more than 200,000, roughly 44 percent of the total population. This was the same proportion as before the Civil War, and they were effectively disenfranchised.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} Not being able to vote meant they could not sit on juries, and were not elected to local, state or federal offices. They also were not recruited for [[law enforcement]] or other government positions. After the end of Reconstruction, the Florida legislature passed [[Jim Crow laws]] establishing [[racial segregation]] in public facilities and transportation. Separate railroad cars or sections of cars for different races were required beginning in 1887.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stephenson|first=Gilbert Thomas|date=May 1909|title=The Separation of The Races in Public Conveyances|journal=The American Political Science Review|volume=3|issue=2|pages=180–204|jstor=1944727|doi=10.2307/1944727|s2cid=146984968 }}</ref> Separate waiting rooms at railroad stations were required beginning in 1909.<ref>{{cite book|author=State of Florida|title=The Revised General Statutes of Florida: Prepared Under Authority of Chapter 6930, Acts 1915, Chapter 7347, Acts 1917, and Chapter 7838, Acts 1919, Laws of Florida, Volume 2|url={{Google books|55RCAQAAMAAJ|page=2306|plainurl=yes}}|year=1920|publisher=E.O. Painter Print|page=2306}}</ref>
Without political representation, African Americans found that their facilities were underfunded and they were pushed into a second-class position. For more than six decades, white Democrats controlled virtually all the state's seats in Congress, which were apportioned based on the total population of the state rather than only the whites who voted.{{dubious|date=February 2018}}
===Spanish–American War===
After the start of the first liberation war in Cuba, known as the [[Ten Years' War]], around 100,000 Cubans fled their homes to avoid the violence and upheaval. Generally speaking, the rich and middle class Cubans settled in Europe or northern cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Meanwhile, the more poor workers ended up settling in south Florida, first in Key West and then eventually in Tampa. However, there were also a number of Spanish living in Florida. Because of the heterogeneous nature of Florida's population, there were both pro and anti-war sentiments leading up to the start of the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Perez |first1=Louis A. Jr. |title=Cubans in Tampa: From Exiles to Immigrants |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1978 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=7–8 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25442 |access-date=August 17, 2022}}</ref>
Because of their proximity to Cuba, Floridians worried that their cities could come under direct attack with the outbreak of war.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shellings |first1=William J. |title=The Advent of the Spanish-American War in Florida |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=April 1961|volume=39|issue=4|page=1 |url=http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/SN00154113_0039_004 |access-date=August 2, 2022}}</ref> [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]] would serve as an embarkation port for troops heading to Cuba. [[Nelson A. Miles|Major General Nelson A. Miles]] ordered a base built in Miami despite earlier rejections by a board of officers. Soldiers began arriving on June 24, 1898. They were volunteers, mostly from the southern states.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Donna |title="Camp Hell:" Miami During the Spanish-American War |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1978 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=20–22 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25442 |access-date=August 17, 2022}}</ref>
==Since 1900==
In 1900, Florida was largely agricultural and frontier; most Floridians lived within 50 miles of the Georgia border. The population grew from 529,000 in 1900 to 18.3 million in 2009. The population explosion began with the great land boom of the 1920s as Florida became a destination for vacationers and a southern land speculator's paradise. People from throughout the Southeast migrated to Florida during this time, creating a larger southern culture in the central part of the state, and expanding the existing one in the northern region.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}
By 1920, Florida had the highest rate of lynchings per capita,<ref name="davis"/> although the overall total had declined. Violence of whites against black people continued into the post-World War II period, and there were lynchings and riots in several small towns in the early 1920s. Florida had the only recorded lynching in 1945, in October after the war's end, when a black man was killed after being falsely accused of assaulting a white girl.<ref name="davis">{{cite journal|last=Davis|first=Jack E.|title="Whitewash" in Florida: The Lynching of Jesse James Payne and Its Aftermath|date=1990|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=68|number=3|pages=277–298|jstor=30146708 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30146708|access-date=August 2, 2022}}</ref>
In the 1920s, many developers invested in land in the southern part of the State in areas such as Miami, and Palm Beach attracting more people in the Southern States. When the Crash came in 1929, prices of houses plunged, but the sunshine remained. Hurt badly by the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] and the land bust, Florida, along with many other States, kept afloat with federal relief money under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}
After World War II, the state would grow dramatically going from having a population of 2.7 million in 1950 to 16 million by 2000. It would go from being the 27th most populated state in 1940 to being the 4th by 2000<ref name=":2" /> and 3rd by 2014.<ref name=fund>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395312/florida-leaves-new-york-behind-its-rear-view-mirror-john-fund|last=Fund|first=John|title=Florida Leaves New York Behind in Its Rear-View Mirror—National Review|date=December 23, 2014|website=Nationalreview.com|access-date=October 23, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/23/florida-surpasses-ny-as-3rd-most-populous-state.html|title=Move over, NY: This state now 3rd most populous|first=Jacob|last=Pramuk|date=December 23, 2014|website=Cnbc.com}}</ref> Florida's strong population growth would follow other states in the southern and western United States. It would follow the same trend as many residents moving to the state were from the Midwest and Northeastern US. Many new residents in Florida were elderly and as a result the average age in Florida would increase from 28.8 in 1950 to 39.3 by 2000. Technological reasons behind Florida's growth included air conditioning and [[DDT]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Mormino|first=Gary|date=Summer 2002|title=Sunbelt Dreams and Altered States: A Social and Cultural History of Florida, 1950–2000|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147612|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=81|issue=1|pages=3–21|jstor=30147612|via=JSTOR}}</ref>
===Race relations===
{{See also|Rosewood massacre|Ocoee massacre|Perry race riot}}
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After World War I, there was a rise in [[lynchings]] and other racial violence directed by whites against black people in the state, as well as across the South. It was due in part from strains of rapid social and economic changes, as well as competition for jobs, and lingering resentment resulting from the [[Reconstruction Era of the United States|Reconstruction]] after the Civil War, as well as tensions among both black and white populations created by the return of black veterans.<ref>{{cite book|last=Akers|first=Monte|title=Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community|year=2011|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0292726338|url={{Google books|rQOs_jKyyZMC|page=151-152|plainurl=yes}}|pages=151–152}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Lois |title=Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Harlem Renaissance Writers |year=2005 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-0816049677 |url={{Google books|t910en1a7pkC|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref>
Whites continued to resort to lynchings to keep dominance, and tensions rose. Florida led the South and the nation in lynchings per capita from 1900 to 1930.<ref>{{cite book|first = Glenda Alice |last =Rabby|title =The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida|location= Athens, GA|publisher= University of Georgia Press|date= 1999|isbn = 978-0820320519| page= 3|url={{Google books|zKw0ltL5VaQC|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Julianne|last=Hare|title=Historic Frenchtown. Heart and Heritage in Tallahassee, Columbia, S.C.|publisher=History Press|date=2006|isbn=1596291494|page=68}}</ref>
White mobs committed massacres, accompanied by wholesale destruction of black houses, churches, and schools, in the small communities of [[Ocoee, Florida|Ocoee]], November 1920; [[Perry, Florida|Perry]] in December 1922; and [[Rosewood, Florida|Rosewood]] in January 1923. The governor appointed a special grand jury and special prosecuting attorney to investigate Rosewood and [[Levy County]], but the jury did not find sufficient evidence to prosecute. Rosewood was never resettled.
The [[Ku Klux Klan]] had several active Klaverns in Florida in the 1920s, starting in Jacksonville in late 1922. Like elsewhere in the south, Klan members terrorized African Americans, Catholics, immigrants and anyone else proclaiming racial equality. They also intimidated voters at polling locations and were direct participants in politics. For example, in the June primaries of 1922, the Klan had winning candidates for several offices throughout [[Volusia County, Florida|Volusia County]]. The three largest Klaverns in the state were in Jacksonville, Miami, and St. Petersburg.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chalmers |first1=David |title=The Ku Klux Klan in the Sunshine State: The 1920's |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=January 1964 |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=209–211 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22396 |access-date=14 February 2023}}</ref>
To escape segregation, lynchings, and civil rights suppression, 40,000 African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] from 1910 to 1940. That was one-fifth of their population in 1900. They sought better lives, including decent-paying jobs, better education for their children, and the chance to vote and participate in political life. Many were recruited for jobs with the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].<ref name=rosewood>{{cite web|url=http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html|title=DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE INCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED AT ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, IN JANUARY 1923|date=December 22, 1993|publisher=Florida State University|page=5|access-date=March 28, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515152951/http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html |archive-date=May 15, 2008}}</ref>
===Boom of 1920s===
{{Main article|Florida land boom of the 1920s}}
The 1920s were a prosperous time for much of the nation, including Florida. The state's new railroads opened up large areas to development, spurring the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s]]. Investors of all kinds, many from outside Florida, raced to buy and sell rapidly appreciating land in newly [[plat]]ted communities such as Miami and Palm Beach. Led by entrepreneurs [[Carl Fisher]] and [[George E. Merrick|George Merrick]], Miami was transformed by [[land speculation]] and ambitious building projects into an emerging metropolis. A growing awareness in the areas surrounding Florida, along with the Northeast about the attractive south Florida winter climate, along with local promotion of speculative investing, spurred the boom.<ref>{{cite journal | first=James M. |last=Ricci| title=Boasters, Boosters and Boom: Some popular Images of Florida in the 1920s| journal= Tampa Bay History|year= 1984| volume=6 |issue =2|pages=31–57 | url = https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory/vol6/iss2/5/}}</ref>
A majority of the people who bought land in Florida hired intermediaries to accomplish the transactions. By 1924, the main issues in state elections were how to attract more industry and the need to build and maintain good roads for tourists.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Victoria H. |last=McDonnell|title=Rise of the 'Businessman's Politician': The 1924 Florida Gubernatorial Race|journal=Florida Historical Quarterly|date=July 1973|volume= 52 |issue= 1|pages= 39–50 |jstor=30150977}}</ref> During the time frame, the population grew from less than one million in 1920, to 1,263,540 in 1925.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|361}}
By 1925, the market ran out of buyers to pay the high prices, and soon the boom became a bust. The [[1926 Miami Hurricane]], which nearly destroyed the city further depressed the real estate market.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Paul S. |last=George|title= Brokers, Binders, and Builders: Greater Miami's Boom of the Mid-1920s|journal= Florida Historical Quarterly|date=July 1986|volume= 65 |issue=1|pages=27–51|jstor=30146317}}</ref> In 1928 another hurricane struck Southern Florida. The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane]] made landfall near [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], severely damaging the local infrastructure. In townships near Lake Okeechobee, the storm breached a dike separating the water from land, creating a [[storm surge]] that killed over 2,000 people and destroying the towns of [[Belle Glade, Florida|Belle Glade]] and [[Pahokee, Florida|Pahokee]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|378}}
Tourists continued to arrive in Florida by train. The introduction of the automobile resulted in an increased number traveling on sometimes macadamized, sometimes dirt roads. The destination was usually Miami or Miami Beach. Roadside attractions included orange shops and alligator wrestling.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Michael | last=Stephens | title=In memory of our state's roadside attractions | url=https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2020/12/14/michael-stephens-memory-floridas-roadside-attractions/3885773001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 11A | date=December 22, 2020 | accessdate=February 19, 2021}}</ref> Tourism was confined to the winter months. Summers were uncomfortably hot for visitors.
===Prohibition===
[[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] had been popular in north Florida, but was opposed in the rest of the south, which became a haven for speakeasies and rum-runners in the 1920s. During 1928–32 a broad coalition of judges, lawyers, politicians, journalists, brewers, hoteliers, retailers, and ordinary Floridians organized to try to repeal the ban on alcohol. When the federal government legalized near beer and light wine in 1933, the wet coalition launched a successful campaign to legalize these beverages at the state level.<ref name="Guthrie 1995 23–39">{{cite journal | first=John J. Jr. |last=Guthrie|title=Rekindling The Spirits: From National Prohibition to Local Option in Florida: 1928–1935 | journal=Florida Historical Quarterly|year= 1995 |volume=74|issue=1|pages= 23–39 | jstor=30148787}}</ref>
Floridians subsequently joined in the national campaign to repeal the 18th Amendment, which succeeded in December 1933. The following November, state voters repealed Florida's constitutional ban on liquor and gave local governments the power to legalize or outlaw alcoholic beverages.<ref name="Guthrie 1995 23–39"/>
===Great Depression===
The [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] began with the Stock Market crash of 1929. By that time, the economy had already declined in much of Florida from the collapse three years earlier of the land boom.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|376}} During the late 1920s and early 1930s Florida would face a variety of problems with some of them stemming from the collapse of the Florida Land Boom and the Great Depression. Two hurricanes with one occurring in [[1926 Miami hurricane|1926]] and another in [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|1928]] would hurt the state further economically.<ref name=":1">{{Cite thesis |last=Evans|first=Jon|date=2011|title=Weathering the Storm: Florida Politics during the Administration of Spessard L. Holland in World War II|type=PhD dissertation|publisher=Florida State University|url=http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-0438|access-date=January 8, 2022}}</ref> The state government would be in debt which was then a violation of Florida's Constitution and over 150 municipalities would also be in debt as they had defaulted on their municipal bonds<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Cox|first=Merlin|date=1964|title=David Sholtz: New Deal Governor of Florida|url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2931&context=fhq|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=43}}</ref> which had mainly been issued as a way to pay for infrastructure during the Florida land boom.<ref name=":1" /> Many property owners often owed taxes to local governments which further worsened the situation. A separate issue would be with Florida's virgin timber crop being virtually cut down by the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shofner|first=Jerrell|date=April 1987|title=Roosevelt's "Tree Army": The Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147841|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=65|issue=4|pages=433–456|jstor=30147841|via=JSTOR}}</ref>
During the [[New Deal]] (1933–40) a variety of projects would be built by the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA). There would be work camps for the young men of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] (CCC).<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|386}} Apart from the New Deal being implemented, Florida would see [[David Sholtz]] become elected as Governor in 1932. As governor, he would manage to implement social welfare programs while simultaneously expanding the amount of tax revenue received by the state government and getting it out of debt. He would also be strongly aligned with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and was a personal friend of his.<ref name=":0"/> Toward the end of Sholtz's tenure his reputation among Floridians which was previously positive would decline as his ethics became questioned. As a result [[Fred P. Cone]] would become elected as governor in 1936. While being governor he would be incredibly hands-off and had a fiscally conservative approach.<ref name=":1" />
From 1930 to 1935, college students selected Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, and Panama City Beach as great places to take a [[spring break]] and party. The 1960s film ''[[Where the Boys Are]]'' increased attendance in Fort Lauderdale to 50,000 annually. When this figure increased to 250,000 in 1985, the city began to pass laws restricting student activities. As a result, students moved to Daytona Beach from 1980 to 1990s. The figure for Fort Lauderdale dropped to 20,000; 350,000 visited Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach passed laws constraining underage drinking. Students then began patronizing Panama City, where 500,000 visited in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Brotemarkle |title=Spring break fun in sun born in 1930s |url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2014/04/01/florida-frontiers-spring-break-fun-sun-born-s/7146479/ |newspaper=Florida Today |location=Melbourne, Florida |pages=11A |date=April 1, 2014 |access-date=April 1, 2014}}</ref>
Florida legalized gambling in 1931 allowing a [[Parimutuel betting]] establishment. By 2014, there were 30 such establishments, generating $200 million in state taxes and fees.<ref name="ft140311">{{Cite news | first=Mike | last=Haridopolos | title=Legislature aims to rewrite gaming rules. 'Complex' issue affects billions of dollars in state revenue | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140311/COLUMNISTS0205/303110004/Legislature-aims-rewrite-state-gaming-rules| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A | date=March 11, 2014 | access-date=March 11, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312072136/http://www.floridatoday.com/proart/20140311/columnists0205/303110004/legislature-aims-rewrite-state-gaming-rules?pagerestricted=1}}</ref>
Anticipating war, the Army and Navy decided to use the state as a primary training area. The Navy chose the coastal areas, the Army, the inland areas.<ref name="i1108">{{Cite journal|first=Klyne |last=Nowlin |date=August 2011 |title=Historians Share Stories About FLorida in WWII |journal=The Intercom |volume=34 |issue=8 |page=9 |url=http://www.moaacc.org/Intercomaug11.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226065206/http://www.moaacc.org/Intercomaug11.pdf |archive-date=December 26, 2011 }}</ref>
In 1940, the population was about 1.5 million. Average annual income was $308 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|308|1940|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars).
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===World War II and the development of the space industry===
[[File:Flaglerstreet Miami 1945.jpg|thumb|Soldiers and crowds in [[Greater Downtown Miami|Downtown Miami]] 20 minutes after Japan's surrender ending World War II (1945).]]
[[File:Aerial View of Launch Complex 39.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Kennedy Space Center]].]]
Prior to the United States entering World War II, Florida was found in polling by [[Gallup, Inc.|Gallup]] to be among the most supportive states for interventionism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rogers |first=Ben |date=1960 |title=Florida in World War II: Tourists and Citrus |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2739&context=fhq |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=39 |issue=1 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |via=STARS}}</ref> In the years leading up to World War II, 100 ships were sunk off the coast of Florida.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100818/LIFE/8180314/New%20book%20highlights%20Florida%20s%20role%20during%20World%20War%20II?GID=TCY2fY/MRMEAyPMROOyxMqf8zGETKpCYE1wGrTNd+mI%3D |title=New book highlights Florida's role during World War II |first=Chris |last=Kridler |date=August 18, 2010 |work=Florida Today|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125015423/http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100818/LIFE/8180314/New%20book%20highlights%20Florida%20s%20role%20during%20World%20War%20II?GID=TCY2fY/MRMEAyPMROOyxMqf8zGETKpCYE1wGrTNd+mI%3D}}</ref> More ships sank after the country entered the war.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}} About 248,000 Floridians served in the war. Around 50,000 of these were African Americans.<ref name="Brotemarkle 5A">{{Cite news | first=Ben | last=Brotemarkle | title=World War II's impact on Florida | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/26/florida-frontiers-remembering-wwiis-impact-florida/705262001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 5A | date=September 27, 2017 | access-date=October 6, 2017}}</ref>
During the war, shipbuilding would make up two-thirds of all industrial growth seen in the state. Thousands of people would be hired by shipbuilding companies during the war to work in Pensacola, Panama City, Jacksonville and Tampa. There would be labor shortages during the war as many of those who worked at industrial jobs were now serving in the military. Local and migrant laborers who worked in the orchards and field would end up leaving for higher paying jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Florida in World War II {{!}} Homefront |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/wwii/homefront/ |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=Florida Memory}}</ref>
The state became a major hub for the [[United States Armed Forces]]. [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]] was originally established as a naval station in 1826 and became the first American naval aviation facility in 1917. The entire nation mobilized for World War II and many bases, especially air bases, were established in Florida, to include:
* [[Naval Air Station Whiting Field]]
* [[Naval Air Station Ellyson Field]]
* [[Tyndall AFB|Tyndall Field]]
* [[Dale Mabry Army Airfield]]
* [[Naval Air Station Jacksonville]]
* [[Naval Station Mayport]]
* [[Naval Air Station Cecil Field]]
* [[Camp Blanding]]
* [[Daytona Beach International Airport|Naval Air Station Daytona Beach]]
* [[Naval Air Station DeLand]]
* [[Naval Air Station Sanford]]
* [[Orlando Executive Airport|Orlando Army Air Base]]
* [[McCoy AFB|Pinecastle Army Airfield]]
* [[Kissimmee Army Airfield]]
* [[Patrick Space Force Base|Naval Air Station Banana River]]
* [[Naval Air Station Melbourne]]
* [[Lakeland Army Airfield]]
* [[Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale]]
* [[Coast Guard Air Station Miami|Naval Air Station Miami]]
* [[Naval Air Station Richmond]]
* [[Page Field Army Airfield]]
* [[Naval Air Station Key West]]
* [[Truman Annex|Naval Station Key West]]
* [[Homestead Air Reserve Base|Homestead Army Air Field]]
Numerous others were also established that exist today as military installations/facilities, civilian airports, or other facilities under different names.
Present day [[Eglin Air Force Base]], [[Hurlburt Field]], and [[MacDill Air Force Base]] (now the home of [[U.S. Central Command]] and [[U.S. Special Operations Command]]) were also developed as [[U.S. Army Air Forces]] installations during this time. During the [[Cold War]], Florida's coastal access and proximity to Cuba encouraged the development of these and other military facilities. Since the end of the Cold War, the military has closed some facilities, including major bases such as [[NAS Sanford]], [[McCoy AFB]], [[NAS Cecil Field]], and NTC Orlando, and realigned others such as Homestead AFB being transferred to the [[Air Force Reserve Command]] and realigned as [[Homestead Air Reserve Base]], or [[Saufley Field|NAS Saufley Field]] realigned as [[Saufley Field|NETPDC Saufley Field]], but their presence is still significant in the state and local economies.
Apart from military bases, Florida would also be home to 22 prisoner of war camps. Starting in May 1943, the Allied powers would send captured Nazi soldiers to the United States with about of 10,000 of them going to 22 camps in Florida. Many of these camps would be located in or near military bases.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kleinberg|first=Eliot|date=January 2, 2022|title=Florida history: German prisoners of war – the enemy in our midst|work=Yahoo! news|agency=Palm Beach Daily News|url=https://news.yahoo.com/florida-history-german-prisoners-war-130017076.html|access-date=January 2, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=War's Impact on Florida: German POWs Held in Camps in Florida|url=https://museumoffloridahistory.com/exhibits/permanent-exhibits/world-war-ii/florida-remembers-world-war-ii/wars-impact-on-florida-german-pows-held-in-camps-in-florida/|url-status=live|access-date=January 2, 2021|website=Museum of Florida History}}</ref>
The population increased by 46% during the 1940s.<ref name="Brotemarkle 5A" />
Because of Cape Canaveral's relative closeness to the equator, compared to other potential locations, it was chosen in 1949 as a test site for the country's nascent missile program. [[Patrick Space Force Base]] and the [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station]] launch site began to take shape as the 1950s progressed. By the early 1960s, the [[Space Race]] was in full swing. As programs were expanded and employees joined, the space program generated a huge boom in the communities around Cape Canaveral. This area is now collectively known as the [[Space Coast]] and features the [[Kennedy Space Center]]. It is also a major center of the [[Aerospace engineering|aerospace industry]]. To date, all crewed orbital spaceflights launched by the United States, including those that carried the only persons to visit the [[Moon]], have been launched from Kennedy Space Center.
===Post-World War II growth, changes and the Civil Rights Movement===
[[File:Five flags of Florida.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Five flags of Florida, not including the current [[Florida State Flag|State Flag.]]]]
Florida's population mix has changed. After World War II, Florida was transformed as the development of [[air conditioning]] and the [[Interstate highway]] system encouraged migration by residents of the North and Midwest.<ref name=":2" />
In 1950, Florida was ranked twentieth among the states in population; 50 years later it was ranked fourth,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t2/tab01.pdf|title=US Census 2000 Table 1. States Ranked by Population|date=April 2, 2001|publisher=Census.gov|url-status=dead|archive-date=2003-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031008124943/https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t2/tab01.pdf}}</ref> and 14 years later was number three.<ref name=fund/><ref>{{cite web |last=Pramuk |first=Jacob |date=December 23, 2014 |title=Move over, NY: This state now 3rd most populous |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/23/florida-surpasses-ny-as-3rd-most-populous-state.html |website=[[CNBC]]}}</ref> Due to low tax rates and warm climate, Florida became the destination for many retirees from the Northeast, Midwest and Canada.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}
Prior to development, Florida salt marshes were capable of producing large numbers of mosquitoes. The [[Aedes sollicitans|salt marsh mosquito]] does not lay its eggs in standing water, preferring moist sand or mud instead. Biologists learned to control them by "source reduction", the process of removing the moist sand needed by the mosquitoes to breed. To achieve this goal, large sections of coastal marshes were either ditched or diked to remove the moist sand that the mosquitoes required to lay eggs on. Together with chemical controls, it yielded a qualified success.<ref>{{cite book|last=Patterson|first=Gordon|title=The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida|year=2004|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville|isbn=978-0813027203}}</ref>
Dramatic changes would also be seen economically in Florida. Agricultural grew during the postwar years and even outpaced the growth of tourism in the state until 1965 when Walt Disney announced the creation of Walt Disney World. Citrus growers doubled their output, cattle ranching expanded in the Kissimmee Valley and farmers began to cultivate the [[Everglades Agricultural Area]] with sugar being the most prominent crop. Sugarcane cultivation would begin to grow significantly in that area after the United States placed an embargo on Cuban sugar in 1959<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Grunwald |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olHjhlx0Em8C |title=The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2007 |isbn=9780743251075 |pages=229–231 |via=Google Books}}</ref> (Cuba was the main supplier of sugar to the United States)<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Outman |first=Catherine Joan |year=2020 |title=Florida's Red Tide: The Hidden Costs of Land Development in the Everglades |type=BA thesis |publisher=Fordham University |page=23 |format=PDF |url=https://research.library.fordham.edu/environ_2015/94/ |via=Fordham Research Commons}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2023}} and repealed the Sugar Act's limits on domestic production. Tourism grew in Florida from 3 million visitors to over 15 million by 1965.<ref name=":3" />
==== Changes in demographics ====
In the early postwar period, the state's population had changed markedly by migration of new groups, as well as emigration of African Americans, 40,000 of whom moved north in earlier decades of the 20th century during the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]].<ref name=rosewood/> By 1960 the number of African Americans in Florida had increased to 880,186, but declined proportionally to 18% of the state's population.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} This was a much smaller proportion than in 1900, when the census showed they comprised 44% of the state's population, while numbering 230,730 persons.<ref name="USCensusOffice1901">{{cite book |title=Bulletins of the Twelfth Census of the United States: No. 61-106; April 5 – Nov. 1, 1901 |date=1901 |publisher=United States Census Office |page=2 |url={{Google books|zqdCAQAAMAAJ|page=2|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> The median age would also end up increasing as the state became a popular destination for retirees; going from 28.8 in 1950 to 39.3 by 2000.<ref name=":2" />
The [[Cuban Revolution]] of 1959 resulted in a large wave of Cuban immigration into South Florida, which transformed Miami into a major center of commerce, finance and transportation for all of Latin America. Emigration from [[Haiti]], other Caribbean states, and Central and South America continues to the present day.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|476–477}}
The population of Asian-Americans increased in Florida during the postwar years, growing from 1,142 counted by the US Census Bureau in 1950 to 154,302 by 1990. During the 1970s and 1980s Asian-Americans would end up becoming the largest foreign-born group of people in Florida.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mohl |first=Raymond A. |date=Winter 1996 |title=Asian Immigration to Florida |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol74/iss3/3/ |journal=[[The Florida Historical Quarterly]] |publisher=[[Florida Historical Society]] |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=261–286 |via=Showcase of Text, Archive, Research & Scholarship (STARS) from the University of Central Florida}}</ref>
==== Civil Rights movement ====
Like other states in the South, Florida had many African-American leaders who were active in the [[civil rights movement]]. In the 1940s and '50s, a new generation started working on issues, emboldened by veterans who had fought during World War II and wanted to gain more civil rights. [[Harry T. Moore]] built the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] ([[NAACP]]) in Florida, rapidly increasing its membership to 10,000. Because Florida's voter laws were not as restrictive as those of Georgia and Alabama, he had some success in registering black voters. In the 1940s he increased voter registration among black people from 5 to 31% of those age-eligible.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis51.htm#1951moore|title=Murder of Harry & Harriette Moore|date=1951|publisher=Civil Rights Movement History|access-date=2008-03-30}}</ref>
But the state had white groups who resisted change, to the point of attacking and killing black people. In December 1951 whites [[Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore|bombed the house]] of activists Harry Moore and his wife Harriette, who both died of injuries from the blast. Although their murders were not solved then, a state investigation in 2006 reported they had been killed by an independent unit of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Numerous bombings were directed against African Americans in 1951–1952 in Florida.<ref>{{cite book |title=Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South|date=1994|publisher= Alfred A. Knopf|pages=562–563|last=Egerton|first=John}}</ref>
===2000 presidential election controversy===
[[File:Butterfly Ballot, Florida 2000 (large).jpg|thumb|195px|"[[Butterfly ballot]]"]]
{{Main article|2000 United States presidential election in Florida}}
Florida became the battleground of the controversial [[2000 US presidential election]] which took place on November 7, 2000. The count of the popular votes was extremely close, triggering automatic recounts. These recounts triggered accusations of fraud and manipulation, and brought to light voting irregularities in the state.
Subsequent recount efforts degenerated into arguments over mispunched ballots, "[[hanging chad]]s", and controversial decisions by [[Florida Secretary of State]] [[Katherine Harris]] and the [[Florida Supreme Court]]. Ultimately, the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled in ''[[Bush v. Gore]]'' to end all recounts, allowing Harris to certify the election results. The final official Florida count gave the victory to [[George W. Bush]] over [[Al Gore]] by 537 votes, a 0.009% margin of difference. The process was extremely divisive, and led to calls for [[electoral reform in Florida]]. Florida has the strictest laws penalizing and disenfranchising felons and other criminals, even if they have served their sentences. Together with other penalties, it excluded many minorities who may have voted for the Democratic candidate.
===Everglades, hurricanes, drilling and the environment===
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Long-term scientific attention has focused on the fragility of the [[Everglades]]. In 2000 Congress authorized the [[Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan]] (CERP) at $8 billion. The goals are to restore the health of the Everglades ecosystem and maximize the value to people of its land, water, and soil.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Everglades: An Environmental History|date=2000|url={{Google books|cuwlngEACAAJ|plainurl=yes}}|last=McCally|first=David|isbn=9780813018270|publisher=University Press of Florida}}</ref> [[File:Destruction following hurricane andrew.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Destruction in [[Lakes by the Bay, Florida|Lakes by the Bay]] near Miami following Hurricane Andrew]]
[[Hurricane Andrew]] in August 1992 struck [[Homestead, Florida|Homestead]], just south of Miami, as a Category 5 hurricane, leaving forty people dead, 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed, more than a million people left without electricity, and damages of $20–30 billion. Much of South Florida's sensitive vegetation was severely damaged. The region had not seen a storm of such power in decades. Besides heavy property damage, the hurricane nearly destroyed the region's insurance industry.<ref>{{cite book |title=In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew|date=2002|last1=Provenzo|first1=Eugene F. Jr.|last2=Provenzo|first2=Asterine Baker|isbn=978-0813025667|publisher=University Press of Florida}}</ref>
The western panhandle was damaged heavily in [[1995 Atlantic hurricane season|1995]], with hurricanes [[Hurricane Allison (1995)|Allison]], [[Hurricane Erin (1995)|Erin]], and [[Hurricane Opal|Opal]] hitting the area within the span of a few months. The storms increased in strength during the season, culminating with Opal's landfall as a Category 3 in October.
Florida also suffered heavily during the [[2004 Atlantic hurricane season]], when four major storms struck the state. [[Hurricane Charley]] made landfall in Charlotte County area and cut northward through the peninsula, [[Hurricane Frances]] struck the Atlantic coast and drenched most of central Florida with heavy rains, [[Hurricane Ivan]] caused heavy damage in the western Panhandle, and [[Hurricane Jeanne]] caused damage to the same area as Frances, including compounded [[Coastal erosion|beach erosion]]. Damage from all four storms was estimated to be at least $22 billion, with some estimates going as high as $40 billion. In 2005, South Florida was struck by Hurricanes [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]] and [[Hurricane Wilma|Wilma]]. The panhandle was struck by [[Hurricane Dennis]].
In 2016, [[Hurricane Matthew]] paralleled the east coast and caused an estimated $10 billion dollars in damage. In 2017, [[Hurricane Irma]] made a catastrophic category 4 landfall in the [[Florida Keys]], followed by a category 3 landfall in [[Collier County]]. Irma caused over $50 billion dollars in damage in Florida, making it the costliest in Floridian history, until being surpassed by [[Hurricane Ian]] in 2022. In 2018, [[Hurricane Michael]] hit the [[Florida Panhandle]] as a Category 5, the first landfall at that intensity in the [[United States]] since [[Hurricane Andrew]] in 1992. It caused over $20 billion dollars in damage in Florida. In 2022, [[Hurricane Ian]] made landfall in [[Lee County, Florida|Lee County]], killing 146 people and causing over $113 billion dollars in damage, making it the [[List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes|costliest hurricane]] to ever hit Florida and the deadliest since the [[1935 Labor Day Hurricane]].
Florida has historically been at risk from hurricanes and tropical storms. These have resulted in higher risks and property damage as the concentration of population and development has increased along Florida's coastal areas. Not only are more people and property at risk, but development has overtaken the natural system of wetlands and waterways, which used to absorb some of the storms' energy and excess waters.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/FLAwetlands/|title=Florida Wetlands|publisher=US Geological Survey|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810134311/http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/FLAwetlands/|archive-date=August 10, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pielke|first1=Roger|last2=Gratz|first2=Joel|last3=Landsea|first3=Christopher W.|last4=Collins|first4=Douglas|last5=Saunders|first5=Mark A.|last6=Musulin|first6=Rade|date=2008|title=Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251194283|journal=Natural Hazards Review|volume=9|issue=1|pages=29–42|doi=10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2008)9:1(29)|access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/socasp/weather1/pielke.html|title=Trends in Hurricane Impacts in the United States|date=n.d.|publisher=University of Colorado|last=Pielke|first=Roger A. Jr.|access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref>
Environmental issues include preservation and restoration of the Everglades, which has moved slowly. There has been pressure by industry groups to drill for [[Crude oil|oil]] in the eastern [[Gulf of Mexico]] but so far, large-scale drilling off the coasts of Florida has been prevented. The federal government declared the state an agricultural disaster area because of 13 straight days of freezing weather during the growing season in January 2010.<ref>{{Cite news| title=Crist wants ag disaster declared in Florida| url=http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/story/Crist-wants-ag-disaster-declared-in-Florida/LKG_5mjyM0KQcqpawqnCUg.cspx| work=Florida Today| agency=[[Associated Press]]| location=Melbourne, Florida| pages=6B| date=January 16, 2010| access-date=March 10, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116174612/http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/story/Crist-wants-ag-disaster-declared-in-Florida/LKG_5mjyM0KQcqpawqnCUg.cspx| archive-date=January 16, 2010| url-status=dead| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Oranges have been grown and sold in Florida since 1872.<ref name=morton>{{cite web|author=Morton, J|url=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/orange.html|title=Orange, ''Citrus sinensis''|date=1987|publisher=NewCROP, New Crop Resource Online Program, Center for New Crops & Plant Products, Purdue University|pages=134–142}}</ref> Production dropped 59% from the 2008–9 season to the 2016–7 season. The decline was mostly due to [[canker]], [[citrus greening disease]], and hurricane damage.<ref>{{Cite news | first1=Dave | last1=Berman | first2=Wayne T.|last2=Price|title=Citrus growers feel the squeeze | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2017/11/10/brevard-county-florida-citrus-growers-feel-the-squeeze-oranges-grapefruits/840813001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A, 10A | date=November 12, 2017 | access-date=November 12, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111235735/http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2017/11/10/brevard-county-florida-citrus-growers-feel-the-squeeze-oranges-grapefruits/840813001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=}}</ref>
===Fishing===
In 2009–2010, "there were hardly any fish off Florida...they are finding fish all over Florida" in 2016. The federal government believes this is due to federal restraints on fishing.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Ledyard | last=King | title=Scientist:Fish counts suffer from 'perception issue' | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/22/noaa-scientist-says-federal-fish-counts-suffer-perception-issue/79172444/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A | date=January 23, 2016 | access-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref><!---somewhat informal narrative of fishing off Florida, reported in a USA Today article, so soft copy won't match hard copy source, but is the same article--><!---article should probably be used in higher level article on fishing in the US-->
===Infrastructure===
Consistent with usage throughout the country, more than 51% of homes in Florida in 2015 use mobile phones or wireless only.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Jim | last=Saunders | title=Floridians continue pulling plug on landlines | url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/03/floridians-continue-pulling-plug-on-landlines| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 3A | date=August 6, 2017 | access-date=August 7, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808034042/https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/03/floridians-continue-pulling-plug-on-landlines|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref>
==Tourism==
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[[File:Winter in Florida.jpg|thumb|175px|Tourists hunting in 1893]]
During the late 19th century, Florida became a popular tourist destination as [[Henry Flagler]]'s railroads expanded into the area.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/18/|title = Episode 17 Travel Dining|date = June 5, 2014|access-date = January 24, 2016|journal = A History of Central Florida Podcast|last = Dickens|first = Bethany}}</ref> In 1891, railroad magnate [[Henry Plant]] built the luxurious [[Tampa Bay Hotel]] in [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]; the hotel was later adapted for use as the campus for the [[University of Tampa]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|269}}
Flagler built the [[Florida East Coast Railway]] from [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] to [[Key West]]. Along the route he provided grand accommodations for passengers, including the [[Ponce de Leon Hotel]] in St. Augustine, the [[Ormond Hotel]] in [[Ormond Beach, Florida|Ormond Beach]], the [[Royal Poinciana Hotel]] and the [[Breakers Hotel]] in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], and the [[Royal Palm Hotel (Miami)|Royal Palm Hotel]] in Miami.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/21/|title = Episode 20 Railroad Bells|date = June 5, 2014|access-date = January 24, 2016|journal = A History of Central Florida Podcast|last = Kelley|first = Katie}}</ref>
In February 1888, Florida had a special tourist: President [[Grover Cleveland]], the first lady, and his party visited Florida for a couple of days. He visited the Subtropical Exposition in Jacksonville, where he made a speech supporting tourism to the state; he took a train to St. Augustine, meeting Henry Flagler; and a train to [[Titusville, Florida|Titusville]], where he boarded a steamboat and visited Rockledge. On his return trip, he visited [[Sanford, Florida|Sanford]] and [[Winter Park, Florida|Winter Park]].
Flagler's railroad connected cities on the east coast of Florida. This created more urbanization along that corridor. Development also followed the construction of Turnpikes I-95 in east Florida, and I-75 in west Florida. These routes aided tourism and urbanization. Northerners from the East Coast used I-95 and tended to settle along that route. People from the MidWest tended to use I-75, and settled along the west coast of Florida.<ref name=ft150628/><!---softcopy not yet filed online by author. probably by July 15, 2015-->
===Theme parks===
[[File:Cinderella Castle @ Magic Kingdom.jpg|thumb|175px|[[Magic Kingdom]] at [[Walt Disney World Resort]]]]
Florida's first theme parks were developed in the 1930s and included [[Cypress Gardens]] (1936) near [[Winter Haven, Florida|Winter Haven]], and [[Marineland (Florida)|Marineland]] (1938) near St. Augustine.
====Disney World====
Disney selected Orlando over several other sites for an updated and expanded version of their Disneyland Park in California. In 1971, [[the Magic Kingdom]], the first component of the <!-- How many acres in development? -->resort, opened and became Florida's best-known attraction, attracting tens of millions of visitors a year. It stimulated the development of other attractions, as well as large tracts of housing and related businesses.<ref>{{cite book |title=Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando|date=2001|publisher=Yale University Press|last=Fogleson|first=Richard|isbn=978-0300098280}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida|last=Mormino|first=Gary|date=August 12, 2008 |publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0813033082}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=12147|title=Wow, What a Ride?|last=Bartley|first=Abel A.|date=2006|publisher=H Net}}</ref>
The [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] area became an international resort and convention destination, featuring a wide variety of themed parks. Other area theme parks include [[Universal Orlando Resort]] and [[SeaWorld]].
===Boating===
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In 2017, 50,000 vessels were damaged by [[Hurricane Irma]]. This resulted in about $500 million worth of damage, predominately in the [[Florida Keys]].<ref>{{Cite news | first=Bill | last=Sargent | title=Florida boater bore brunt of hurricanes | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/outdoors/bill-sargent/2017/11/10/sargent-florida-boaters-bore-brunt-hurricanes/853564001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A | date=November 12, 2017 | access-date=November 12, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112204722/http://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/outdoors/bill-sargent/2017/11/10/sargent-florida-boaters-bore-brunt-hurricanes/853564001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|History|North America|United States|Florida|British Empire}}
{{main article|Historical outline of Florida|Timeline of Florida History}}
* [[Florida Historical Society]]
* [[History of the Southern United States]]
* [[Indigenous people of the Everglades region]]
* [[Maritime History of Florida]]
* [[Museum of Florida History]]
* [[State Library and Archives of Florida]]
* [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum]]
*[[Women's suffrage in Florida]]
; History of places in Florida
* [[History of Brevard County, Florida]]
* [[History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida]]
* [[History of Jacksonville, Florida]]
* [[History of Miami]]
* [[Timeline of Orlando, Florida]]
* [[History of Pensacola, Florida]]
* [[History of Sarasota, Florida]]
* [[History of St. Petersburg, Florida]]
* [[History of Tampa, Florida]]
* [[History of Tallahassee, Florida]]
* [[History of West Palm Beach, Florida]]
* [[History of Ybor City]]
==References==
{{Reflist|40em}}
==Further reading==
{{Politics of Florida}}
===Surveys===
* Colburn, David R. and deHaven-Smith, Lance. ''Government in the Sunshine State: Florida since Statehood.'' (1999). 168 pp.
* Colburn, David R. and Landers, Jane L., eds. ''The African American Heritage of Florida.'' (1995). 392 pp.
* Fernald, Edward A. and Purdum, Elizabeth, eds. ''Atlas of Florida.'' (1992). 280 pp.
* Gannon, Michael. ''The New History of Florida''. [[University Press of Florida]]: 1996. {{ISBN|0-8130-1415-8}}. 480pp
* Gannon, Michael. ''Florida: A Short History'' (2003) 192 pages
* George, Paul S., ed. ''A Guide to the History of Florida.'' (1989). 300 pp.
* Manley, Walter W., II and Brown, Canter Jr., eds. ''The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972'' (2007)
===Indians and colonial===
* Brown, Robin C. ''Florida's First People: 12,000 Years of Human History''. [[Pineapple Press]]: 1994. {{ISBN|1-56164-032-8}}.
* Henderson, Ann L., and Gary R. Mormino. ''Spanish Pathways in Florida: 1492–1992''. Pineapple Press: 1991. {{ISBN|1-56164-004-2}}.
* Landers, Jane. ''Black Society in Spanish Florida''. [[University of Illinois Press]]: 1999. {{ISBN|0-252-06753-3}}
* Milanich, Jerald T. ''Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present.'' (1998). 224 pp.
* Murphree, Daniel S. ''Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783'' (2007)
===To 1900===
* Baptist, Edward E. ''Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War.'' (2002) 408 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=9052 online review]
* Brown, Canter, Jr. ''Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor.'' (1997). 320 pp. on reconstruction
* Brown, Canter Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. ''For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864–1905.''(2004) 268ppl the other large black church [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=10833 online review]
* Hoffman, Paul E. ''Florida's Frontiers.'' (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier series.) (2002). 470 pp.
* Klingman, Peter D. "Race and Faction in the Public Career of Florida's Josiah T. Walls." in Howard N. Rabinowitz, ed. ''Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era'' (1982). 59–78.
* Klingman, Peter D. ''Josiah Walls: Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction'' (1976).
* {{cite book |last1=Knetsch |first1=Joe |title=Florida in the Spanish-American War |date=2011 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=9781609490881}}
* Kokomoor, Kevin. "A Re-assessment of Seminoles, Africans, and Slavery on the Florida Frontier", ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Fall 2009, Vol. 88 Issue 2, pp 209–236
* Nulty, William H. ''Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee.'' (1990).
* Revels, Tracy J. ''Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War.'' (2004) 221 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=10988 online review]
* Richardson, Joe M. "Jonathan C. Gibbs: Florida's Only Negro Cabinet Member." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' 42.4 (1964): 363–368. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30140048 in JSTOR]
* Rivers, Larry Eugene. ''Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.'' (2000). 369 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6308 online review]
* Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Brown, Canter, Jr. ''Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865–1895.'' (2001). 244 pp. history of the leading black denomination; [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6811 online review]
* Sprague, John T. ''The Florida War.'' (1964), on Seminole war 597 pp.
* Taylor, Robert A. ''Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy.'' (1995). 218 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=170 online review]
* Warren, Harris G. "Textbook Writers and the Florida" Purchase" Myth." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' 41.4 (1963): 325–331 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30139962 online]
===20th century===
* Akin, Edward N. ''Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.'' (1988). 305 pp.
* Colburn, David R. and deHaven-Smith, Lance. ''Florida's Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida.'' (2002). 161 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6760 online review]
* Colburn, David R. ''From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940.'' (2007) 272pp [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=14680 online review]
* Colburn, David R. and Scher, Richard K. ''Florida's Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century.'' (1980). 342 pp.
* Kleinberg, Eliot. ''War in Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida.'' (1999). 96pp.
* Klingman, Peter D. ''Neither Dies nor Surrenders: A History of the Republican Party in Florida, 1867–1970.'' (1984). 233 pp.
* Manley, Walter W., II and Canter Brown. ''The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972.'' (2006). 428 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22804 online review]
* Newton, Michael. ''The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida.'' (2001). 260 pp.
*Peirce, Neal R. ''The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States''. 1974
* Rowe, Anne E. ''The Idea of Florida in the American Literary Imagination.'' (1986). 159 pp.
* Stuart, John A., and [[John F. Stack]], eds. ''The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933–1940.'' 263 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23065 online review]
* Vickers, Raymond B. ''Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926.'' (1994). 336 pp.
* Wagy, Tom R. ''Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida: Spokesman of the New South.'' (1985). 264 pp. Democratic governor 1955–61
===Regions, social and economic history===
* Carlson, Amanda B., and Robin Poynor, eds. ''Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State'' (University Press of Florida, 2014) 462 pp. heavily illustrated.
* Drobney, Jeffrey. ''Lumbermen and Log Sawyers: Life, Labor, and Culture in the North Florida Timber Industry, 1830–1930.'' (1997). 241 pp.
* Faherty, William Barnaby ''Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State.'' (2002) 224pp [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=8438 online review]
* Grant, Roger H. ''Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad'' (2007)
* Hann, John H. ''Apalachee: The Land between the Rivers.'' (1988). 450 pp.
* Hollander, Gail M. ''Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida'' (2007)
* McNally, Michael J. ''Catholic Parish Life on Florida's West Coast, 1860–1968.'' (1996). 503 pp.
* Middleton, Sallie. "Space Rush: Local Impact of Federal Aerospace Programs on Brevard and Surrounding Counties", ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Fall 2008, Vol. 87 Issue 2, pp 258–289
* Otis, Katherine Ann. "Everything Old Is New Again: A Social and Cultural History of Life on the Retirement Frontier, 1950–2000" PhD dissertation; ''Dissertation Abstracts International'', 2008, Vol. 69 Issue 4, p 1513–1513
* Stronge, William B. ''The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War'' (2008)
* Turner, Gregg M. ''A Journey into Florida Railroad History'' (2008)
===Environment===
* Barnes, Jay. ''Florida's Hurricane History.'' (1998). 330 pp.
* Barnett, Cynthia. ''Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.'' (2007). 240 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23145 online review]
* Grunwald, Michael, "Swamped: Harry Truman, South Florida, and the Changing Political Geography of American Conservation", in ''The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman'', ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, pp 75–88. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009) . xxxvi, 145 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-931112-93-2}}
* Kendrick, Baynard. ''A History of Florida Forests'' (2 vol 2007)
* McCally, David. ''The Everglades: An Environmental History.'' (1999). 215 pp.
* Miller, James J. ''An Environmental History of Northeast Florida.'' (1998). 223 pp.
* Ogden, Laura. "The Everglades Ecosystem and the Politics of Nature", ''American Anthropologist'', March 2008, Vol. 110 Issue 1, pp 21–32
* Poole, Leslie Kemp. ''Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century'' (University Press of Florida, 2015). x, 274 pp.
* Williams, John M. and Duedall, Iver W. ''Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871–2001.'' (2002). 176 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6853 online review]
===Primary sources===
* Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, and James David Glunt, eds. ''Florida Plantation Records: From the Papers of George Noble Jones.'' (University Press of Florida, 2006). 596 pp. {{ISBN|0-8130-2976-7}}; Originally published in 1927.
* Romans, Bernard. ''A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida.'' ed. by Kathryn E. Holland Braund, (1999). 442 pp. online review travel in 1770s
==External links==
* [http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/ Florida Bureau of Archeological Research]
* [http://www.floridamemory.com/ Florida Memory] over 500,000 photographs and documents from the State Archives of Florida.
* Boston Public Library, Map Center. [http://maps.bpl.org/explore/location/florida-6 Maps of Florida], various dates.
* [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10086 "Map of the Peninsula of Florida"] from ca. 1639 via the [[World Digital Library]]
* [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/ A History of Central Florida Podcast]
* [https://www.ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers Florida Digital Newspaper Library] hosted at the [[George A. Smathers Libraries]] at the [[University of Florida]]
* [http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History]
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{{History of Florida}}
The '''history of Florida''' can be traced to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunbar |first=James S. |title=The pre-Clovis occupation of Florida: The Page-Ladson and Wakulla Springs Lodge Data |url=http://www.clovisinthesoutheast.net/dunbar.html |access-date=June 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012043208/http://www.clovisinthesoutheast.net/dunbar.html |archive-date=October 12, 2014 }}</ref> They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's [[Recorded history|written history]] begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer [[Juan Ponce de León]] in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that ''[[conquistador]]'', who called the peninsula ''La Pascua Florida'' in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called ''[[Pascua Florida]]'' (Festival of Flowers).<ref name="Chang-Rodríguez2006">{{cite book|first=Raquel|last=Chang-Rodríguez|title=Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida Del Inca|url={{Google books|d3UGjXiSAJ0C|page=47|plainurl=yes}}|year=2006|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-0-8387-5651-5|page=47}}</ref><ref name="Vega2010">{{cite book|author=Garcilaso de la Vega|title=The Florida of the Inca|url={{Google books|o11AZeV4pwEC|page=5|plainurl=yes}}|date=June 28, 2010|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78905-0|page=5}}</ref><ref name="Steigman2005">{{cite book|first=Jonathan D.|last=Steigman|title=La Florida Del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America|url={{Google books|QTjoOz7WMiIC|page=33|plainurl=yes}}|date=September 25, 2005|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5257-8|page=33}}</ref>
This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting in 1513. Since then Florida has had many waves of colonization and immigration, including French and Spanish settlement during the 16th century, as well as entry of new Native American groups migrating from elsewhere in the South, and free black people and fugitive slaves, who in the 19th century became allied with the Native Americans as [[Black Seminoles]]. Florida was under colonial rule by [[Spanish Empire|Spain]] from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by [[British Empire|Great Britain]] during the 18th century (1763–1783). Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a [[Florida Territory|territory]] of the United States in 1821. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state.
Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" due to its warm climate and days of sunshine. Florida's sunny climate, many beaches, and growth of industries have attracted northern migrants within the United States, international migrants, and vacationers since the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s]]. A diverse population, urbanization, and a diverse economy would develop in Florida throughout the 20th century. In 2014, Florida with over 19 million people, surpassed New York and became the third most [[List of U.S. states and territories by population|populous state in the U.S.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://proximityone.com/st0030.htm|title=Demographic Composition and Trends|date=n.d.|access-date=April 18, 2012|publisher=Proximity}}</ref>
The economy of Florida has changed over its history, starting with [[Exploitation of natural resources|natural resource exploitation]] in logging, mining, fishing, and [[sponge diving]]; as well as [[Ranch|cattle ranching]], farming, and [[Citrus|citrus growing]]. The tourism, real estate, trade, banking, and [[Retirement community|retirement destination]] businesses would develop as economic sectors later on.
==Early history==
===Geology===
[[File:Shell Midden, Enterprise, FL.jpg|thumb|250px|A shell [[midden]] at [[Enterprise, Florida]] in 1875.]]
The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of [[Gondwana]] at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of [[Laurentia]] 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator. By then, Florida was surrounded by desert, in the middle of a new continent, [[Pangaea]]. When Pangaea broke up 115 mya, Florida assumed a shape as a peninsula.<ref name="Hine2013">{{cite book|first=Albert C.|last=Hine|title=Geologic History of Florida: Major Events that Formed the Sunshine State|url={{Google books|XZm-MgEACAAJ|page=30-31|plainurl=yes}}|year=2013|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-4421-7|pages=30–31}}</ref>
The emergent [[landmass]] of Florida was [[Orange Island (Florida)|Orange Island]], a low-relief island sitting atop the carbonate [[Florida Platform]] which emerged about 34 to 28 million years ago.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hughes|first1=Joseph D.|last2=Vacher|first2=H.L.|last3=Sanford|first3=Ward E.|date=2007|title=Three-dimensional flow in the Florida platform: Theoretical analysis of Kohout convection at its type locality|url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/35/7/663/129931/Three-dimensional-flow-in-the-Florida-platform|journal=Geology|volume=35|issue=7|pages=663–666|doi=10.1130/G23374A.1|bibcode=2007Geo....35..663H |access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref> When [[Quaternary glaciation|glaciation]] locked up the world's water, starting 2.58 million years ago, the sea level dropped precipitously. It was approximately {{convert|100|m|sp=us}} lower than present levels. As a result, the Florida peninsula not only emerged, but had a land area about twice what it is today. Florida also had a drier and cooler climate than in more recent times. There were few flowing rivers or [[wetland]]s.
===First Floridians===
{{See also|Indigenous peoples of Florida|Indigenous people of the Everglades region}}
[[Paleo-Indians]] entered what is now Florida at least 14,000 years ago, during the [[last glacial period]].<ref name=purdy>{{Cite book|title=Florida's People During the Last Ice Age|last=Purdy|first=Barbara A.|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8130-3204-7|publisher=University Press of Florida|quote=Purdy: 2, states that the evidence for the presence of humans in Florida by 14,000 years ago is "indisputable".}}</ref>{{rp|2}} With lower sea levels, the Florida peninsula was much wider, and the climate was cooler and much drier than in the present day. Fresh water was available only in [[sinkhole]]s and [[limestone]] catchment basins, and paleo-Indian activity centered around these relatively scarce watering holes. Sinkholes and basins in the beds of modern rivers (such as the [[Page-Ladson]] site in the [[Aucilla River]]) have yielded a rich trove of paleo-Indian [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]], including [[Clovis point]]s.<ref name=milanich98/>{{rp|3–12}}
Excavations at an ancient stone [[quarry]] (the Container Corporation of America site in [[Marion County, Florida|Marion County]]) yielded "crude stone implements" showing signs of extensive wear from deposits below those holding Paleo-Indian artifacts. [[Thermoluminescence dating]] and [[weathering]] analysis independently gave dates of 26,000 to 28,000 years ago for the creation of the artifacts. The findings are controversial, and funding has not been available for follow-up studies.<ref name=purdy/>{{rp|106–115}}
As the glaciers began retreating about 8000 [[Common Era|BCE]], the climate of Florida became warmer and wetter. As the glaciers melted, the sea level rose, reducing the land mass. Many prehistoric habitation sites along the old coastline were slowly submerged, making artifacts from early coastal cultures difficult to find.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dos.myflorida.com/historical/archaeology/underwater/sites/drowned-prehistoric-sites/|title=Drowned Prehistoric Sites|date=n.d.|publisher=Florida Dept of State}}</ref> The paleo-Indian culture was replaced by, or evolved into, the [[Archaic period in the Americas|Early Archaic culture]]. With an increase in population and more water available, the people occupied many more locations, as evidenced by numerous artifacts. [[Archeology|Archaeologists]] have learned much about the Early Archaic people of Florida from the discoveries made at [[Windover Archeological Site|Windover Pond]]. The Early Archaic period evolved into the Middle Archaic period around 5000 BC. People started living in villages near wetlands and along the coast at favored sites that were likely occupied for multiple generations.
The Late Archaic period started about 3000 BC, when Florida's climate had reached current conditions and the sea had risen close to its present level. People commonly occupied both fresh and saltwater wetlands. Large shell [[middens]] accumulated during this period. Many people lived in large villages with purpose-built [[Earthworks (archaeology)|earthwork]] [[mound]]s, such as at [[Horr's Island]], which had the largest permanently occupied community in the Archaic period in the southeastern United States. It also has the oldest [[burial mound]] in the East, dating to about 1450 BC. People began making fired pottery in Florida by 2000 BC. By about 500 BC, the Archaic culture, which had been fairly uniform across Florida, began to fragment into regional cultures.<ref name=milanich98/>{{rp|12–37}}
The post-Archaic cultures of eastern and southern Florida developed in relative isolation. It is likely that the peoples living in those areas at the time of first European contact were direct descendants of the inhabitants of the areas in late Archaic and [[Woodland period|Woodland]] times. The cultures of the Florida panhandle and the north and central [[Gulf of Mexico|Gulf]] coast of the Florida peninsula were strongly influenced by the [[Mississippian culture]], producing two local variants known as the [[Pensacola culture]] and the [[Fort Walton culture]].<ref name=MARRINAN2007>{{cite journal|first1=Rochelle A.|last1=Marrinan|author2=Nancy Marie White|url=http://www.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org/pdf/fw1.pdf|title=Modeling Fort Walton Culture in Northwest Florida|journal=Southeastern Archaeology|volume=26|number=2–Winter|year=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403084151/http://www.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org/pdf/fw1.pdf|archive-date=April 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name=WEINSTEIN2008>{{cite journal|journal=Southeastern Archaeology |title=The spread of shell-tempered ceramics along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico |volume=27 |issue=2 |year=2008 |author1=Weinstein, Richard A. |author2=Dumas, Ashley A. |url=http://www.coastalenv.com/sarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425141409/http://www.coastalenv.com/sarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf |archive-date=April 25, 2012 }}</ref>
Continuity in cultural history suggests that the peoples of those areas were also descended from the inhabitants of the Archaic period. In the panhandle and the northern part of the peninsula, people adopted cultivation of maize. Its cultivation was restricted or absent among the tribes who lived south of the [[Timucua language|Timucuan]]-speaking people (i.e., south of a line approximately from present-day [[Daytona Beach, Florida]] to a point on or north of Tampa Bay.)<ref name=milanich98>{{cite book|first=Jerald T.|last=Milanich|title=Florida's Indians From Ancient Time to the Present|date=1998|publisher=University Press of Florida|pages=38–132|isbn=978-0813015996}}</ref> Peoples in southern Florida depended on the rich estuarine environment and developed a highly complex society without agriculture.
===European contact and aftermath===
[[File:Flindians1723.JPG|thumb|250px|[[Bernard Picart]] Copper Plate Engraving of Florida Indians, circa 1721<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Bernard|editor-first=Chez J.F.|last1=Bernard|first1=Jean-Frédéric|last2=Picart|first2=Bernard|title=Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/50032372/}}<!--Private collection of L.S. Morgan in St. Augustine, FL--></ref>]]
At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes. (Anthropologist [[Henry F. Dobyns]] has estimated that as many as 700,000 people lived in Florida in 1492).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lord|first=Lewis|date=August 1997|title=How Many People Were Here Before Columbus?|pages=68–70|work=U.S. News & World Report|url=https://www.bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2009/4/5/34767803/Pre-Columbian%20population.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2021}}</ref> The [[Spanish Empire]] sent Spanish explorers recording nearly one hundred names of groups they encountered, ranging from organized political entities such as the [[Apalachee]], with a population of around 50,000, to villages with no known political affiliation. There were an estimated 150,000 speakers of dialects of the [[Timucua language]], but the [[Timucua]] were organized as groups of villages and did not share a common culture.<ref name=milanich95>{{cite book|first=Jerald T.|last=Milanich|title=Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe|date=1995|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=0-8130-1360-7}}</ref>{{rp|1–2, 82}} Other tribes in Florida at the time of first contact included the [[Ais (tribe)|Ais]], [[Calusa]], [[Jaega]], [[Mayaimi]], [[Tequesta]], and [[Tocobaga]].
The populations of all of these tribes decreased markedly during the period of Spanish control of Florida, mostly due to epidemics of newly introduced [[infectious diseases]], to which the Native Americans had no natural [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]]. Beginning late in the 17th century, when most of the [[indigenous peoples]] were already much reduced in population, [[Apalachicola Province#Attacks on Spanish missions|peoples]] from areas to the north of Florida, supplied with arms and occasionally accompanied by [[white (people)|white]] colonists from the [[Province of Carolina]], raided throughout Florida. They burned villages, wounded many of the inhabitants and carried captives back to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charles Towne]] to be sold into [[slavery]]. Most of the villages in Florida were abandoned, and the survivors sought refuge at [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] or in isolated spots around the state. Many tribes became extinct during this period and by the end of the 18th century.<ref name=milanich95/>{{rp|213–228}}
Some of the Apalachee eventually reached Louisiana, where they survived as a distinct group for at least another century. The Spanish evacuated the few surviving members of the Florida tribes to [[Cuba]] in 1763 when Spain transferred the territory of Florida to the [[British Empire]] following the latter's victory against France in the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref name=milanich95/>{{rp|227–231}} In the aftermath, the [[Seminole]], originally an offshoot of the [[Creek people]] who absorbed other groups, developed as a distinct tribe in Florida during the 18th century through the process of [[ethnogenesis]]. They have three federally recognized tribes: the largest is the [[Seminole Nation of Oklahoma]], formed of descendants since removal in the 1830s; others are the smaller [[Seminole Tribe of Florida]] and the [[Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida]].
==Colonial battleground==
===First Spanish rule (1513–1763)===
[[File:RUIDIAZ(1893) 1.083 JUAN PONCE DE LEÓN.jpg|thumb|200px|left|[[Juan Ponce de León]] was one of the first Europeans to set foot in the current United States; he led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.]]
{{Main article|Spanish Florida}}
[[File:Cantino Map - 1502 - Florida.jpg|thumb|200px|A depiction of what might be Florida from the 1502 [[Cantino planisphere|Cantino map]] ]]
[[File:Florida worship french column 1591.jpeg|thumb|200px|Timucua Indians at a column erected by the French in 1562]]
[[File:1527-TeraFlorida.jpg|thumb|200px|A 1527 map by [[Vesconte Maggiolo]] showing the east coast of North America with "Tera Florida" at the top and "Lavoradore" at the bottom.]]
[[File:Florida Moyne 1591.jpeg|thumb|200px|A 1591 map of Florida by [[Jacques le Moyne|Jacques le Moyne de Morgues]].]]
[[Juan Ponce de León]], a famous Spanish conqueror and explorer, is usually given credit for being the first European to sight Florida in 1513, but he probably had predecessors. Florida and much of the nearby coast is depicted in the [[Cantino planisphere]], an early world map which was surreptitiously copied in 1502 from the most current [[Portuguese discoveries|Portuguese sailing charts]] and smuggled into Italy a full decade before Ponce sailed north from [[Puerto Rico]] on his voyage of exploration. Ponce de León may not have even been the first Spaniard to go ashore in Florida; slave traders may have secretly raided native villages before Ponce arrived, as he encountered at least one indigenous tribesman who spoke Spanish.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Hale G.|last2=Gottlob|first2=Marc|date=1978 |editor-last1=Milanich|editor-first1=Jerald|editor-last2=Proctor |editor-first2=Samuel |title=Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period'|publisher=University Presses of Florida|chapter=Spanish-Indian Relationships: Synoptic History and Archaeological Evidence, 1500–1763|isbn=978-0-8130-0535-5}}</ref> However, Ponce's 1513 expedition to Florida was the first open and official one. He also gave Florida its name, which means "full of flowers."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/juan-ponce-de-leon|title=Juan Ponce de Léon|website=History|publisher=A&E Television Networks|access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> A dubious legend states that Ponce de León was searching for the [[Fountain of Youth]] on the island of Bimini, based on information from natives.<ref name="Peck">{{cite web|author=Peck, Douglas T |title=Misconceptions and Myths Related to the Fountain of Youth and Juan Ponce de Leon's 1513 Exploration Voyage |url=http://www.newworldexplorersinc.org/FountainofYouth.pdf |publisher=New World Explorers, Inc |access-date=2008-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409062720/http://www.newworldexplorersinc.org/FountainofYouth.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ponce-de-leon-never-searched-for-the-fountain-of-youth-72629888/?no-ist | title=Ponce de Leon Never Searched for the Fountain of Youth|date=2013|author=Matthew Shaer|publisher=Smithsonian Magazine}}</ref>
On March 3, 1513, Juan Ponce de León organized and equipped three ships for an expedition departing from "[[Aguada, Puerto Rico|Punta Aguada]]," Puerto Rico. The expedition included 200 people, including women and free black people.
Although it is often stated that he sighted the peninsula for the first time on March 27, 1513, and thought it was an island, he probably saw one of the Bahamas at that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.floridahistory.org/floridians/conquis.htm|title=FLORIDA OF THE CONQUISTADOR|date=n.d.|publisher=FloridaHistory.org|access-date=June 17, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615120550/http://www.floridahistory.org/floridians/conquis.htm |archive-date=June 15, 2006 }}</ref> He went ashore on Florida's east coast during the Spanish Easter feast, [[Pascua Florida]], on April 7 and named the land ''La Pascua de la Florida.'' After briefly exploring the land south of present-day [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]], the expedition sailed south to the bottom of the Florida peninsula, through the [[Florida Keys]], and up the west coast as far north as [[Charlotte Harbor, Florida|Charlotte Harbor]], where they briefly skirmished with the [[Calusa]] before heading back to Puerto Rico.
From 1513 onward, the land became known as ''La Florida''. After 1630, and throughout the 18th century, Tegesta (after the [[Tequesta]] tribe) was an alternate name of choice for the Florida peninsula following publication of a map by the Dutch cartographer [[Hessel Gerritsz]] in [[Joannes de Laet]]'s ''History of the New World''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/floridamaps/view_image.php?image_name=dlp00020000020001001&group=sp|title=Florida et Regiones Vicinae|date=n.d.|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=2013-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii14003.htm|title="Marvellous countries and lands" Notable Maps of Florida, 1507–1846|date=n.d.|publisher=Broward|last=Ehrenberg|first=Ralph E.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803204621/http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii14003.htm|archive-date=August 3, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="De Bow's Review, Vol. XXII Third Series Vol. II">{{Cite book|title=De Bow's Review|volume=XXII|series=Third Series Vol. II|last= De Bow|first=J. D. B. |author-link=James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow |year=1857 |location=Washington, D.C. and New Orleans |pages= 303–305|quote=The name Florida, sometimes expanded to cover more of the present-day southeastern U.S., remained the most commonly used Spanish term, however, throughout the entire period.}}</ref>
Further Spanish attempts to explore and colonize Florida were disastrous. Ponce de León returned to the Charlotte Harbor area in 1521 with equipment and settlers to start a colony, but was soon driven off by hostile Calusa, and de León died in Cuba from wounds received in the fighting. [[Pánfilo de Narváez]]'s expedition explored Florida's west coast in 1528, but his violent demands for gold and food led to hostile relations with the [[Tocobaga]] and other native groups. Facing starvation and unable to find his support ships, Narváez attempted return to Mexico via rafts, but all were lost at sea and only four members of the expedition survived. [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] landed in Florida in 1539 and began a multi-year trek through what is now the southeastern United States in which he found no gold and lost his life. In 1559 [[Tristán de Luna y Arellano]] established the first settlement in [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]] but, after a violent hurricane destroyed the area, it was abandoned in 1561.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Archaeology of colonial Pensacola|last=Bense|first=Judith Ann|year=1999|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn= 978-0-8130-1661-0}}</ref>{{rp|6}}
The horse, which the natives had hunted to extinction 10,000 years ago,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historical-museum.org/archaeology/first_arrivals/first_arrivals.htm |title=First Arrivals: The Archaeology of Southern Florida |publisher=Historical-museum.org |access-date=September 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326120957/http://www.historical-museum.org/archaeology/first_arrivals/first_arrivals.htm |archive-date=March 26, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was reintroduced into North America by the European explorers, and into Florida in 1538.<ref name = IberianOrigins>{{cite journal|last=Luís|first= Cristina|year=2006|title=Iberian Origins of New World Horse Breeds|journal=[[Journal of Heredity]]|volume=97|issue=2|pages=107–113|doi=10.1093/jhered/esj020|pmid=16489143|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}</ref> As the animals were lost or stolen, they began to become feral.
In [[Timeline of Florida History|1564]], [[René Goulaine de Laudonnière]] founded [[Fort Caroline]] in what is now [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], as a haven for [[Huguenot]] Protestant refugees from religious persecution in France.<ref name=RowlandMooreRogers>{{cite book|last1=Rowland|first1=Lawrence S.|last2=Moore|first2=Alexander|last3=Rogers|first3=George C.|title = The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514–1861|edition= 1996| publisher=University of South Carolina Press| isbn= 978-1-57003-090-1|year=1996}}</ref>{{rp|26}} Further down the coast, in 1565 [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]] founded San Agustín ([[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]])<ref name=RowlandMooreRogers/>{{rp|27}} which is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in any U.S. state. It is second oldest only to [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], in the United States' current territory. From this base of operations, the Spanish began building [[Spanish missions in Florida|Catholic missions]].
All colonial cities were founded near the mouths of rivers. St. Augustine was founded where the [[Matanzas Inlet]] permitted access to the [[Matanzas River]]. Other cities were founded on the sea with similar inlets: Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Pensacola, Tampa, Fort Myers, and others.<ref name=ft150628>{{Cite news | first=Hank | last=Fishkind | title=Transportation routes transform landscape, economy | newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 28A | date=June 28, 2015 }}</ref><!---softcopy not yet available on author's site, not paper-->
On September 20, 1565, Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline, killing most of the French Huguenot defenders.<ref name=RowlandMooreRogers/>{{rp|28}} Two years later, [[Dominique de Gourgue]] recaptured the settlement for France, this time slaughtering the Spanish defenders.
St. Augustine became the most important settlement in Florida. Little more than a fort, it was frequently attacked and burned, with most residents killed or fled. It was notably devastated in 1586, when English sea captain and sometime pirate Sir [[Francis Drake]] plundered and burned the city. Catholic missionaries used St. Augustine as a base of operations to establish over 100 far-flung missions throughout Florida.<ref name="Han1990">{{cite book|first=John H.|last=Hann|title=Summary Guide to Spanish Florida Missions and Visitas|url={{Google books|8DYLAAAAYAAJ|page=97|plainurl=yes}}|year=1990|publisher=Academy of American Franciscan History|isbn=9780883822852|page=97}}</ref> They converted 26,000 natives by 1655, but a revolt in 1656 and an epidemic in 1659 proved devastating. Pirate attacks and British raids were unrelenting, and the town was burned to the ground several times until Spain fortified it with the [[Castillo de San Marcos]] (1672) and [[Fort Matanzas]] (1742).
African slaves used primarily for labor were first introduced to Spanish Florida as early as 1580, when officials asked for permission to import slaves to bolster the workforce in and around St. Augustine. However, due to restrictions by the Spanish crown, the population of African slaves in Florida remained relatively low until around the period of British control in 1763.<ref name="Smith2017">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Julia F. |title=Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antelbellum Florida, 1821-1860 |date=2017 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville, FL |isbn=9781947372627 |page=9}}</ref>
Throughout the 17th century, English settlers in [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]] and [[Province of Carolina|Carolina]] gradually pushed the boundaries of Spanish territory south, while the French settlements along the [[Mississippi River]] encroached on the western borders of the Spanish claim. In 1702, Governor of Carolina [[James Moore Sr.|James Moore]] and allied [[Yamasee]] and [[Creek people|Creek Indians]] attacked and razed the town of St. Augustine, but they could not gain control of the fort. In 1704, Moore and his soldiers began burning Spanish missions in north Florida and executing Indians friendly with the Spanish. The collapse of the Spanish mission system and the defeat of the Spanish-allied [[Apalachee]] Indians (the [[Apalachee massacre]]) opened Florida up to [[Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas|slave raids]], which reached to the Florida Keys and decimated the native population. The [[Yamasee War]] of 1715–1717 in the Carolinas resulted in numerous Indian refugees, such as the Yamasee, moving south to Florida. In 1719, the French captured the Spanish settlement at Pensacola.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717|last=Gallay|first=Alan|year=2002|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-10193-7|pages=144–147}}</ref>
====Fugitive slaves and conflicts====
The border between the British colony of Georgia and Spanish Florida was never clearly defined, and was the subject of constant harassment in both directions, until it was ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1821. The [[Monarchy of Spain|Spanish Crown]], beginning with [[Charles II of Spain|King Charles II]] in 1693, encouraged [[Fugitive slaves in the United States|fugitive slaves]] from the [[Thirteen Colonies|British North American colonies]] to escape and offered them freedom and refuge if they converted to Catholicism. This was well known through word of mouth in the colonies of Georgia and South Carolina, and hundreds of [[Slavery in the colonial history of the United States|enslaved Africans]] escaped to their freedom, which infuriated colonists in the British North American colonies. They settled in a buffer community north of St. Augustine, called [[Fort Mose Historic State Park|Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose]], the first settlement made of [[Free people of color|free black people]] in North America.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Landers|first=Jane|date=January 1984|title=Spanish Sanctuary: Fugitives in Florida, 1687–1790|url=https://ucf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25466/datastream/OBJ/view|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=62|issue=3|pages=296–313|via=University of Central Florida Digital Library}}</ref>
During this period, the British (including their North American colonies) repeatedly attacked Spanish Florida, especially in 1702 and again in 1740, when a large force under [[James Oglethorpe]] sailed south from Georgia and [[Siege of St. Augustine (1740)|besieged St. Augustine]], but was unable to capture the [[Castillo de San Marcos]]. The [[1755 Lisbon earthquake]] triggered a [[tsunami]] that would have struck Central Florida with an estimated {{convert|1.5|m|sp=us|adj=on}} wave.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110321/NEWS01/110321001/Large-margins-safety-Florida-s-nuclear-plants |title=Large margins of safety in Florida's nuclear plants|access-date=November 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110326212607/http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110321/NEWS01/110321001/Large-margins-safety-Florida-s-nuclear-plants |archive-date=March 26, 2011 }}</ref>
Creek and Seminole Native Americans, who had established buffer settlements in Florida at the invitation of the Spanish government, also welcomed any fugitive slaves which reached their settlements. In 1771, Governor [[John Moultrie (politician)|John Moultrie]] wrote to the [[Board of Trade]] that "it has been a practice for a good while past, for negroes to run away from their Masters, and get into the Indian towns, from whence it proved very difficult to get them back." When British colonial officials in Florida pressed the Seminole to return runaway slaves, they replied that they had "merely given hungry people food, and invited the slaveholders to catch the runaways themselves."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Miller|first=E|date=2001|title=St. Augustine's British Years|journal=The Journal of the St. Augustine Historical Society|pages=38}}</ref>
===British rule (1763–1783)===
{{Main article|East Florida|West Florida}}
[[File:West Florida Map 1767.svg|thumb|right|300px|The expanded West Florida territory in 1767.]]
In [[Timeline of Florida History|1763]], Spain traded Florida to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] for control of [[Havana]], Cuba, which [[Battle of Havana (1762)|had been captured]] by the British during the [[Seven Years' War]]. It was part of a large expansion of British territory following the [[Great Britain in the Seven Years' War|country's victory in the Seven Years' War]]. Almost the entire Spanish population left, taking along most of the remaining indigenous population to Cuba. The British divided the territory into [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]].<ref name="http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/docs/f/florbrit.htm">{{cite web|author=Florida Center for Instructional Technology |url=http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/docs/f/florbrit.htm |title=Floripedia: Florida: As a British Colony |publisher=Fcit.usf.edu |access-date=2009-10-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title = A History of Florida|first1= Caroline Mays|last1= Brevard|first2= Henry Eastman|last2 = Bennett|page=77|url = https://archive.org/details/historyofflorida00brevar|location = New York|publisher = American Book Company|date = 1904}}</ref> The British soon constructed the [[King's Road (Florida)|King's Road]] connecting St. Augustine to [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]]. The road crossed the [[St. Johns River]] at a narrow point, which the [[Seminole]] called ''Wacca Pilatka'' and the British named "Cow Ford", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.<ref>{{cite book |title= Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage |last= Wood |first= Wayne |year= 1992 |publisher= [[University Press of Florida]] |isbn= 978-0-8130-0953-7|page= 22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= The Indian Miscellany |last= Beach |first= William Wallace |year= 1877 |publisher= J. Munsel|page=125|url= https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lqqAAAAAIAAJ|access-date= July 12, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Wells |first=Judy|title=City had humble beginnings on the banks of the St. Johns|url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/030200/ent_S0302FIR.html|access-date=July 2, 2011|newspaper=The Florida Times-Union|date=March 2, 2000|url-status=dead|archive-date=2000-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001026115121/http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/030200/ent_S0302FIR.html}}</ref> The British government gave land grants to officers and soldiers who had fought in the [[French and Indian War]] in order to encourage settlement. In order to induce settlers to move to the two new colonies reports of the natural wealth of Florida were published in England. A large number of British colonists who were "energetic and of good character" moved to Florida, mostly coming from [[South Carolina]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and England, though there was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of [[Bermuda]]. This would be the first permanent English-speaking population in what is now [[Duval County, Florida|Duval County]], [[Baker County, Florida|Baker County]], [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns County]], and [[Nassau County, Florida|Nassau County]]. The British built good public roads and introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo, and fruits, as well the export of lumber. As a result of these initiatives northeastern Florida prospered economically in a way it never did under Spanish rule. Furthermore, the British governors were directed to call general assemblies as soon as possible to make laws for the Floridas and in the meantime they were, with the advice of councils, to establish courts. This would be the first introduction of much of the English-derived legal system which Florida still has today, including [[Jury Trial|trial by jury]], [[habeas corpus]], and county-based government.<ref>{{cite book|title = A History of Florida|first1= Caroline Mays|last1= Brevard |first2= Henry Eastman|last2 = Bennett|url = https://archive.org/details/historyofflorida00brevar |location = New York|publisher = American Book Company|date = 1904}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Mowat|first=Charles L.|date=1940|title=The Land Policy in British East Florida|journal=Agricultural History|volume=14|number=2|pages=75–77}}</ref>
A [[Scottish people|Scottish]] settler named Dr. [[Andrew Turnbull (colonist)|Andrew Turnbull]] transplanted around 1,500 [[indentured]] settlers, from [[Menorca]], [[Majorca]], [[Ibiza]], [[Smyrna]], [[Crete]], [[Mani Peninsula]], and [[Sicily]], to grow [[hemp]], [[sugarcane]], [[indigo]], and to produce [[rum]]. Settled at [[New Smyrna Beach, Florida|New Smyrna]], within months the colony suffered major losses primarily due to insect-borne diseases and Native American raids. Most crops did not do well in the sandy Florida soil. Those that survived rarely equaled the quality produced in other colonies. The colonists tired of their servitude and Turnbull's rule. On several occasions, he used African [[slaves]] to whip his unruly settlers. The settlement collapsed and the survivors fled to safety with the British authorities in St. Augustine. Their descendants survive to this day, as does the name New Smyrna.
In 1767, the British moved the northern boundary of West Florida to a line extending from the mouth of the [[Yazoo River]] east to the [[Chattahoochee River]] (32° 28′north latitude), consisting of approximately the lower third of the present states of [[Mississippi]] and [[Alabama]]. During this time, Creek Indians migrated into Florida and formed the Seminole tribe.
====Florida in the American Revolutionary War====
{{Anchor|Florida in the American Revolutionary War|Florida in the American Revolution}}
When representatives from thirteen North American colonies [[United States Declaration of Independence|declared independence from Great Britain]] in 1776, many Floridians condemned the action. East and West Florida were backwater outposts whose populations included a large percentage of British military personnel and their families. There was little trade in or out of the colonies, so they were largely unaffected by the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act Crisis of 1765]] and other taxes and policies which brought other British colonies together in common interest against a shared threat. Thus, a majority of Florida residents were [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]], and both East and West Florida declined to send representatives to any sessions of the [[Continental Congress]].
Governor [[Patrick Tonyn]] raised four black militia units to protect East Florida. Enslaved blacks who fought for the British Crown were promised freedom. However, due to the passing of stricter slave codes and the efforts of slave owners, few of those who fought were granted their freedom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rivers |first1=Larry E. |title=Slavery in Florida : territorial days to emancipation |date=2000 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville |isbn=9780813018133 |page=6}}</ref>
During the [[American Revolutionary War]], Florida Loyalists fighting for the English Crown participated in raids against the Patriot forces in South Carolina and Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-04 |title=Decisions and destiny - Florida Humanities |url=https://floridahumanities.org/decisions-and-destiny/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |language=en-US}}</ref> Continental forces attempted to invade East Florida early in the conflict, but they were defeated on May 17, 1777, at the [[Battle of Thomas Creek]] in today's [[Nassau County, Florida|Nassau County]] when American Colonel John Baker surrendered to the British.<ref name="upperstjohn2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.upperstjohn.com/people/johnbaker.htm |title=John Baker |publisher=Upperstjohn.com |date=June 6, 2004 |access-date=2009-10-02}}</ref> Another American incursion into the same area was repelled at the [[Battle of Alligator Bridge]] on June 30, 1778.
The two Floridas remained loyal to Great Britain throughout the war. However, Spain, participating indirectly in the war as an ally of France, captured [[Battle of Pensacola (1781)|Pensacola]] from the British in 1781. The [[Peace of Paris (1783)]] ended the Revolutionary War and returned all of Florida to Spanish control, but without specifying the boundaries. The Spanish wanted the expanded northern boundary Britain had made to West Florida, while the new United States demanded the old boundary at the [[31st parallel north]]. This [[West Florida Controversy|border controversy]] was resolved in the 1795 [[Treaty of San Lorenzo]] when Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the boundary.
====Departure of the British====
Just as most residents of Spanish Florida had left when Britain gained possession of the territory in 1763, the impending return to Spanish control in 1783 saw a vast exodus of those who had settled in the area over the previous twenty years. This included many [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]] who had fled there during the American War of Independence and had caused East Florida's population to swell considerably if temporarily.<ref name=Fhq>{{cite journal|last=May|first=Philip S.|year=1944|title=Zephaniah Kingsley, Nonconformist (1765–1843)|journal=[[Florida Historical Quarterly]]|volume=23|number=3|url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol23/iss3/3|pages=145–159, at p. 145}}</ref>
===Second Spanish rule (1783–1821)===
{{Main article|Spanish Florida#Second Spanish period}}
Spain's reoccupation of Florida involved the arrival of some officials and soldiers at St. Augustine and Pensacola but very few new settlers. Most British residents had departed, leaving much of the territory depopulated and unguarded. North Florida continued to be the home of the newly amalgamated black–native American Seminole culture and a haven for people escaping slavery in the southern United States. Settlers in southern Georgia demanded that Spain control the Seminole population and capture runaway slaves, to which Spain replied that the slave owners were welcome to recapture the runaways themselves.
Americans began moving into northern Florida from the backwoods of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[South Carolina]]. Though technically not allowed by the Spanish authorities, the Spanish were never able to effectively police the border region, and a mix of American settlers, escaped slaves, and Native Americans would continue to migrate into Florida unchecked. The American migrants, mixing with the few remaining settlers from Florida's British period, would be the progenitors of the population known as [[Florida Cracker]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cracker: Cracker Culture in Florida History|last=Ste Claire|first=Dana M.|publisher=University Press of Florida|date=2006|isbn=978-0-8130-3028-9}}</ref>
====Republic of West Florida====
{{main article|Republic of West Florida}}
Ignoring Spanish territorial claims, American settlers, along with some remaining British settlers, established a permanent foothold in the western end of West Florida during the first decade of the 1800s. In the summer of 1810, they began planning a rebellion against Spanish rule which became open revolt in September. The rebels overcame the Spanish garrison at [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]] and proclaimed the "Free and Independent Republic of West Florida" on September 23. (None of it was within what is today the state of Florida.) Their flag was the original "[[Bonnie Blue Flag]]", a single white star on a blue field. On October 27, 1810, most of the Republic of West Florida was annexed by proclamation of President [[James Madison]], who claimed that the region was included in the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and incorporated it into the newly formed [[Territory of Orleans]]. Some leaders of the newly declared republic objected to the takeover, but all had deferred to arriving American troops by mid-December 1810. The [[Florida Parishes]] of the modern state of [[Louisiana]] include most of the territory claimed by the short-lived Republic of West Florida.
Spain sided with Great Britain during the [[War of 1812]], and the U.S. annexed the [[Mobile District]] of West Florida to the [[Mississippi Territory]] in May 1812. The surrender of Spanish forces at [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] in April 1813 officially established American control over the area, which was eventually divided between the states of [[Alabama]] and [[Mississippi]].
====Republic of East Florida====
{{main article|Republic of East Florida}}
In March 1812, a small independent band of Americans took control of [[Amelia Island]] on the Atlantic coast. They declared that they were now an independent republic free from Spanish rule in what would become known as the [[Patriot War (Florida)|Patriot War]]. The revolt was organized by [[George Mathews (Georgia)|General George Mathews]] of the U.S. Army, who had been authorized to secretly negotiate with the Spanish governor for American acquisition of East Florida. Instead, Mathews organized a group of frontiersmen in Georgia, who arrived at the Spanish town of [[Fernandina, Florida|Fernandina]] and demanded the surrender of all of Amelia Island. Upon declaring the island a republic, he led his volunteers along with a contingent of regular army troops south towards St. Augustine. Upon hearing of Mathews' actions, the government became alarmed that he would provoke war with Spain. Secretary of State [[James Monroe]] ordered Matthews to return all captured territory to Spanish authorities. After several months of negotiations on the withdrawal of the Americans and compensation for their foraging through the countryside, the countries came to an agreement, and Amelia Island was returned to the Spanish in May 1813.<ref>James G. Cusick, ''The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida'' (University of Georgia Press, 2007). </ref>
A similar filibuster action took place in September of 1817, when the Scottish veteran and con-man [[Gregor MacGregor]] led a private force and captured Amelia Island and declared it part of the [[Republic of the Floridas]]. By December of 1817, the United States seized the island.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Doyle |first1=Patrick W. |title=Unmasked: The Author of "Narrative of a Voyage to the Spanish Main in the Ship "Two Friends" |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=Fall 1999 |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=192–193 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25534 |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>
====First Seminole War====
{{main articles|Seminole Wars|Black Seminoles}}
The unguarded Florida border was an increasing source of tension late in the second Spanish period. Seminoles based in [[East Florida]] had been accused of raiding Georgia settlements, and settlers were angered by the stream of slaves escaping into Florida, where they were welcomed. [[Negro Fort]], an abandoned British fortification in the far west of the territory, was manned by both indigenous and black people. The [[United States Army]] would lead increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by [[Andrew Jackson]] that became known later as the [[First Seminole War]]. Jackson took temporary control of Pensacola in 1818, and though he withdrew due to Spanish objections, the United States continued to effectively control much of West Florida. According to Secretary of State [[John Quincy Adams]], this was necessary because Florida had become "a derelict open to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States, and serving no other earthly purpose than as a post of annoyance to them."<ref>{{cite book|first = Alexander |last =Deconde|title =A History of American Foreign Policy|date=1963|page= 127|publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons}}</ref>
====End of Spanish control====
{{main article|Adams-Onis Treaty}}
After Jackson's incursions, Spain decided that Florida had become too much of a burden, as it could not afford to send settlers or garrisons to properly occupy the land and was receiving very little revenue from the territory. Madrid therefore decided to cede Florida to the United States. The transfer was negotiated as part of the [[Adams–Onís Treaty]], which also settled several boundary disputes between Spanish colonies and the U.S. in exchange for American payment of $5,000,000 in claims against the Spanish government.<ref name=tebeau>{{cite book|last=Tebeau|first=Charlton W.| title = A History of Florida, Third Edition|edition=1999|year=1971|publisher=University of Miami Press|isbn=978-0870243387}}</ref>{{rp|156}} The treaty was signed in 1819 and took effect in 1821, and the United States formally took possession of Florida on July 17, 1821.
==Territory and statehood==
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===Statehood (1845)===
[[File:Florida Capitol 1845.jpg|thumb|250px|The brick [[Florida State Capitol|Capitol]] as built in 1845.]]
On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America. Its first governor was [[William Dunn Moseley]].
Almost half the state's population were enslaved African Americans working on large cotton and sugar [[Plantations in the American South|plantations]], between the [[Apalachicola River|Apalachicola]] and [[Suwannee River|Suwannee]] rivers in the north central part of the state.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|158}} Like the people who owned them, many slaves had come from the coastal areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. They were part of the [[Gullah]]–[[Geechee]] culture of the [[Lowcountry]]. Others were enslaved African Americans from the upper South who had been sold to traders taking slaves to the deep South.{{sfn|Smith|2017|pp=9–11}}
In the 1850s, with the potential transfer of ownership of federal land to the state, including Seminole land, the federal government decided to convince the remaining Seminoles to emigrate. The Army reactivated Fort Harvie and renamed it to [[Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers]]. Increased Army patrols led to hostilities, and eventually a Seminole attack on Fort Myers which killed two United States soldiers.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|155}} The [[Third Seminole War]] lasted from 1855 to 1858 which ended with most of the remaining Seminoles, mostly women and children moving to Indian Territory. In 1859, another 75 Seminoles surrendered and were sent to the West, but a small number continued to live in the Everglades.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|156}}
On the eve of the Civil War, Florida had the smallest population of the Southern states. It was invested in plantation agriculture, which was dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans. By 1860, Florida had 140,424 people, of whom 44% were enslaved and fewer than 1,000 were [[free black|free people of color]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|157}} Florida also had one of the highest per capita murder rates prior to the Civil War, thanks to a weakened central government, the institution of slavery, and a troubled political history.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Denham|first1=James M.|last2=Roth|first2=Randolph|year=2007|title=Why Was Antebellum Florida Murderous? A Quantitative Analysis of Homicide in Florida, 1821–1861|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=86|number=2|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25594611|pages=216–217|jstor=25594611 }}</ref>
==Civil War through late 19th century==
===American Civil War===
{{Main article|Florida in the American Civil War}}
[[File:Battle of Olustee.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Battle of Olustee]] was the only major Civil War battle fought in Florida.]]
Following [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[1860 United States presidential election in Florida|election in 1860]], Florida joined other Southern states in seceding from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. [[Secession]] took place January 10, 1861, and after less than a month as an independent republic, Florida became one of the founding seven states of the [[Confederate States of America]]. During the Civil War, Florida was an important supply route for the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]]. Therefore, Union forces operated a [[naval blockade]] around the entire state, and Union troops occupied major ports such as [[Cedar Key, Florida|Cedar Key]], [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Key West, Florida|Key West]], and [[Pensacola]]. Though numerous skirmishes occurred in Florida, including the [[Battle of Natural Bridge]], the [[Battle of Marianna]] and the [[Battle of Gainesville]], the only major battle was the [[Battle of Olustee]] near [[Lake City, Florida|Lake City]].
In 1861, at the start of the war, the state had a population of roughly 140,000, with half of that being enslaved African Americans.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Weitz |editor1-first=Seth A. |editor2-last=Sheppard |editor2-first=Jonathan C. |title=A Forgotten Front: Florida during the Civil War Era |date=2018 |publisher=University Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, AL. |isbn=9780817319823 |page=11}}</ref> In spite of the state's relatively small population, Florida did send several units to fight up north, most notably the [[1st Florida Infantry Regiment|1st Florida]], the [[8th Florida Infantry Regiment|8th Florida]] and the [[3rd Florida Infantry Regiment]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sheppard |first1=Jonathan C. |title=By the noble daring of her sons : the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee |date=2012 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, Ala. |isbn=9780817317072 |page=28}}</ref>
Most of the population were not enthusiastic about the secession, and the Unionist movement that was a minority in Florida between 1861 and 1862 increased notably during the last three years of the war, especially in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]], [[Sarasota, Florida|Sarasota]] and most of South and Northwest Florida, where [[List of Florida Union Civil War units|Unionist regiments]] were formed. At the time of the end of the war, most Floridians deserted the Confederate Army and the government in Florida was under anarchy until the Union troops returned to Florida.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy" |url=https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/cvl_war/cvl_war1.htm#:~:text=Florida%27s%20greatest%20contribution%20to%20the,supplies%20could%20get%20safely%20northward. |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=fcit.usf.edu}}</ref>
===Reconstruction era===
{{Main article|Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era}}
During the [[Reconstruction era]] that followed the Civil War, [[Republican Party (United States)|moderate Republicans]] took charge of the state, first led by [[Harrison Reed (politician)| Governor Harrison Reed]]. In order to combat the increasing growing [[Ku Klux Klan]], Reed mobilized black and white militias and purchased two thousand rifles in New York with which to arm them. However, the train carrying the arms was attacked by members of the Klan and the weapons were lost.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burnett |first1=Gene M. |title=Florida's past : people and events that shaped the state. Volume 2 |date=1988 |publisher=Pineapple Press |location=Sarasota, FL |isbn=9780910923590 |page=127}}</ref>
The moderate regime plunged into complicated maneuvering and infighting. It drafted a conservative constitution. The extended contest between liberals and radicals inside the Republican Party alienated so many voters that the Democrats took power. They rigged elections, [[disenfranchisement|disenfranchised]] black voters, and made the state a reliable part of the "[[Solid South]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Shofner|first=Jerrell|editor-last=Olsen|editor-first=Otto|date=1980|title=Reconstruction and Redemption in the South|chapter=Florida: A Failure of Moderate Republicanism|publisher=LSU Press|pages=13–46}}</ref>
A [[Florida Constitution#The 1868 Florida Constitution|state convention was held in 1868 to rewrite the constitution]].<ref name="DuBois">{{cite book |last=Du Bois|first=W.E.B.|date=1992|orig-date=1935|type=Reprint|title=Black Reconstruction in America: 1860–1880|publisher=The Free Press|pages=513, 515}}</ref> After meeting the requirements of Congress, including ratification of the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|13th]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution]], Florida was readmitted to the Union on July 4, 1868.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cox |first1=Merlin G. |title=Military Reconstruction in Florida |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=January 1968 |volume=46 |issue=3 |page=232 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22411 |access-date=8 January 2023}}</ref> This did not end the struggle for political power among groups in the state. Southern whites objected to freedmen's political participation and complained of illiterate representatives to the state legislature. But of the six members who could not read or write during the seven years of Republican rule, four were white.<ref name="DuBois"/>
After [[Compromise of 1877|Federal troops left the South in 1877]], conservative white Democrats engaged in [[voter suppression]] and intimidation, regaining control of the [[Florida state legislature|state legislature]]. This was accomplished partly through violent actions by white paramilitary groups targeting freedmen and their allies to discourage them from voting.
Thanks to government enticements, entrepreneurs like [[Henry Flagler]], [[Henry B. Plant]], and [[Hamilton Disston]], invested heavily in Florida, especially its infrastructure. The development of railroads and other transportation in the state led the population to almost double in the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knetsch |first1=Joe |title=Florida in the Spanish-American War |date=2011 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=9781609490881 |pages=18–19}}</ref>
===Disenfranchisement===
{{See also|List of Jim Crow law examples by State#Florida|Black Codes (United States)#Florida}}
From 1885 to 1889, after regaining power, the white-dominated state legislature passed statutes to impose [[poll tax]]es and other barriers to [[voter registration]] and voting, to eliminate voting by black people and poor whites. These two groups had threatened white Democratic power with a [[populism|populist]] coalition. As these groups were stripped from voter rolls, white Democrats established power in a one-party state, as happened across the South.
In this period, white violence rose against black people, particularly in the form of [[lynching]]s, which reached a peak around the turn of the century.<ref name="davis"/>
The [[Great Freeze]] of 1894–5 ruined citrus crops, which had a detrimental ripple effect on the economy of Central Florida in particular.<ref>{{cite book |last=McMurry|first=Charles Alexander|date=1908|title=Type Studies from the Geography of the United States|publisher=Macmillan & Company|page=81}}</ref> By 1900 the state's African Americans numbered more than 200,000, roughly 44 percent of the total population. This was the same proportion as before the Civil War, and they were effectively disenfranchised.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} Not being able to vote meant they could not sit on juries, and were not elected to local, state or federal offices. They also were not recruited for [[law enforcement]] or other government positions. After the end of Reconstruction, the Florida legislature passed [[Jim Crow laws]] establishing [[racial segregation]] in public facilities and transportation. Separate railroad cars or sections of cars for different races were required beginning in 1887.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stephenson|first=Gilbert Thomas|date=May 1909|title=The Separation of The Races in Public Conveyances|journal=The American Political Science Review|volume=3|issue=2|pages=180–204|jstor=1944727|doi=10.2307/1944727|s2cid=146984968 }}</ref> Separate waiting rooms at railroad stations were required beginning in 1909.<ref>{{cite book|author=State of Florida|title=The Revised General Statutes of Florida: Prepared Under Authority of Chapter 6930, Acts 1915, Chapter 7347, Acts 1917, and Chapter 7838, Acts 1919, Laws of Florida, Volume 2|url={{Google books|55RCAQAAMAAJ|page=2306|plainurl=yes}}|year=1920|publisher=E.O. Painter Print|page=2306}}</ref>
Without political representation, African Americans found that their facilities were underfunded and they were pushed into a second-class position. For more than six decades, white Democrats controlled virtually all the state's seats in Congress, which were apportioned based on the total population of the state rather than only the whites who voted.{{dubious|date=February 2018}}
===Spanish–American War===
After the start of the first liberation war in Cuba, known as the [[Ten Years' War]], around 100,000 Cubans fled their homes to avoid the violence and upheaval. Generally speaking, the rich and middle class Cubans settled in Europe or northern cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Meanwhile, the more poor workers ended up settling in south Florida, first in Key West and then eventually in Tampa. However, there were also a number of Spanish living in Florida. Because of the heterogeneous nature of Florida's population, there were both pro and anti-war sentiments leading up to the start of the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Perez |first1=Louis A. Jr. |title=Cubans in Tampa: From Exiles to Immigrants |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1978 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=7–8 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25442 |access-date=August 17, 2022}}</ref>
Because of their proximity to Cuba, Floridians worried that their cities could come under direct attack with the outbreak of war.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shellings |first1=William J. |title=The Advent of the Spanish-American War in Florida |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=April 1961|volume=39|issue=4|page=1 |url=http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/SN00154113_0039_004 |access-date=August 2, 2022}}</ref> [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]] would serve as an embarkation port for troops heading to Cuba. [[Nelson A. Miles|Major General Nelson A. Miles]] ordered a base built in Miami despite earlier rejections by a board of officers. Soldiers began arriving on June 24, 1898. They were volunteers, mostly from the southern states.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Donna |title="Camp Hell:" Miami During the Spanish-American War |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1978 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=20–22 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25442 |access-date=August 17, 2022}}</ref>
==Since 1900==
In 1900, Florida was largely agricultural and frontier; most Floridians lived within 50 miles of the Georgia border. The population grew from 529,000 in 1900 to 18.3 million in 2009. The population explosion began with the great land boom of the 1920s as Florida became a destination for vacationers and a southern land speculator's paradise. People from throughout the Southeast migrated to Florida during this time, creating a larger southern culture in the central part of the state, and expanding the existing one in the northern region.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}
By 1920, Florida had the highest rate of lynchings per capita,<ref name="davis"/> although the overall total had declined. Violence of whites against black people continued into the post-World War II period, and there were lynchings and riots in several small towns in the early 1920s. Florida had the only recorded lynching in 1945, in October after the war's end, when a black man was killed after being falsely accused of assaulting a white girl.<ref name="davis">{{cite journal|last=Davis|first=Jack E.|title="Whitewash" in Florida: The Lynching of Jesse James Payne and Its Aftermath|date=1990|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=68|number=3|pages=277–298|jstor=30146708 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30146708|access-date=August 2, 2022}}</ref>
In the 1920s, many developers invested in land in the southern part of the State in areas such as Miami, and Palm Beach attracting more people in the Southern States. When the Crash came in 1929, prices of houses plunged, but the sunshine remained. Hurt badly by the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] and the land bust, Florida, along with many other States, kept afloat with federal relief money under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}
After World War II, the state would grow dramatically going from having a population of 2.7 million in 1950 to 16 million by 2000. It would go from being the 27th most populated state in 1940 to being the 4th by 2000<ref name=":2" /> and 3rd by 2014.<ref name=fund>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395312/florida-leaves-new-york-behind-its-rear-view-mirror-john-fund|last=Fund|first=John|title=Florida Leaves New York Behind in Its Rear-View Mirror—National Review|date=December 23, 2014|website=Nationalreview.com|access-date=October 23, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/23/florida-surpasses-ny-as-3rd-most-populous-state.html|title=Move over, NY: This state now 3rd most populous|first=Jacob|last=Pramuk|date=December 23, 2014|website=Cnbc.com}}</ref> Florida's strong population growth would follow other states in the southern and western United States. It would follow the same trend as many residents moving to the state were from the Midwest and Northeastern US. Many new residents in Florida were elderly and as a result the average age in Florida would increase from 28.8 in 1950 to 39.3 by 2000. Technological reasons behind Florida's growth included air conditioning and [[DDT]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Mormino|first=Gary|date=Summer 2002|title=Sunbelt Dreams and Altered States: A Social and Cultural History of Florida, 1950–2000|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147612|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=81|issue=1|pages=3–21|jstor=30147612|via=JSTOR}}</ref>
===Race relations===
{{See also|Rosewood massacre|Ocoee massacre|Perry race riot}}
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After World War I, there was a rise in [[lynchings]] and other racial violence directed by whites against black people in the state, as well as across the South. It was due in part from strains of rapid social and economic changes, as well as competition for jobs, and lingering resentment resulting from the [[Reconstruction Era of the United States|Reconstruction]] after the Civil War, as well as tensions among both black and white populations created by the return of black veterans.<ref>{{cite book|last=Akers|first=Monte|title=Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community|year=2011|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0292726338|url={{Google books|rQOs_jKyyZMC|page=151-152|plainurl=yes}}|pages=151–152}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Lois |title=Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Harlem Renaissance Writers |year=2005 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-0816049677 |url={{Google books|t910en1a7pkC|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref>
Whites continued to resort to lynchings to keep dominance, and tensions rose. Florida led the South and the nation in lynchings per capita from 1900 to 1930.<ref>{{cite book|first = Glenda Alice |last =Rabby|title =The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida|location= Athens, GA|publisher= University of Georgia Press|date= 1999|isbn = 978-0820320519| page= 3|url={{Google books|zKw0ltL5VaQC|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Julianne|last=Hare|title=Historic Frenchtown. Heart and Heritage in Tallahassee, Columbia, S.C.|publisher=History Press|date=2006|isbn=1596291494|page=68}}</ref>
White mobs committed massacres, accompanied by wholesale destruction of black houses, churches, and schools, in the small communities of [[Ocoee, Florida|Ocoee]], November 1920; [[Perry, Florida|Perry]] in December 1922; and [[Rosewood, Florida|Rosewood]] in January 1923. The governor appointed a special grand jury and special prosecuting attorney to investigate Rosewood and [[Levy County]], but the jury did not find sufficient evidence to prosecute. Rosewood was never resettled.
The [[Ku Klux Klan]] had several active Klaverns in Florida in the 1920s, starting in Jacksonville in late 1922. Like elsewhere in the south, Klan members terrorized African Americans, Catholics, immigrants and anyone else proclaiming racial equality. They also intimidated voters at polling locations and were direct participants in politics. For example, in the June primaries of 1922, the Klan had winning candidates for several offices throughout [[Volusia County, Florida|Volusia County]]. The three largest Klaverns in the state were in Jacksonville, Miami, and St. Petersburg.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chalmers |first1=David |title=The Ku Klux Klan in the Sunshine State: The 1920's |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=January 1964 |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=209–211 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22396 |access-date=14 February 2023}}</ref>
To escape segregation, lynchings, and civil rights suppression, 40,000 African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] from 1910 to 1940. That was one-fifth of their population in 1900. They sought better lives, including decent-paying jobs, better education for their children, and the chance to vote and participate in political life. Many were recruited for jobs with the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].<ref name=rosewood>{{cite web|url=http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html|title=DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE INCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED AT ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, IN JANUARY 1923|date=December 22, 1993|publisher=Florida State University|page=5|access-date=March 28, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515152951/http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html |archive-date=May 15, 2008}}</ref>
===Boom of 1920s===
{{Main article|Florida land boom of the 1920s}}
The 1920s were a prosperous time for much of the nation, including Florida. The state's new railroads opened up large areas to development, spurring the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s]]. Investors of all kinds, many from outside Florida, raced to buy and sell rapidly appreciating land in newly [[plat]]ted communities such as Miami and Palm Beach. Led by entrepreneurs [[Carl Fisher]] and [[George E. Merrick|George Merrick]], Miami was transformed by [[land speculation]] and ambitious building projects into an emerging metropolis. A growing awareness in the areas surrounding Florida, along with the Northeast about the attractive south Florida winter climate, along with local promotion of speculative investing, spurred the boom.<ref>{{cite journal | first=James M. |last=Ricci| title=Boasters, Boosters and Boom: Some popular Images of Florida in the 1920s| journal= Tampa Bay History|year= 1984| volume=6 |issue =2|pages=31–57 | url = https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory/vol6/iss2/5/}}</ref>
A majority of the people who bought land in Florida hired intermediaries to accomplish the transactions. By 1924, the main issues in state elections were how to attract more industry and the need to build and maintain good roads for tourists.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Victoria H. |last=McDonnell|title=Rise of the 'Businessman's Politician': The 1924 Florida Gubernatorial Race|journal=Florida Historical Quarterly|date=July 1973|volume= 52 |issue= 1|pages= 39–50 |jstor=30150977}}</ref> During the time frame, the population grew from less than one million in 1920, to 1,263,540 in 1925.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|361}}
By 1925, the market ran out of buyers to pay the high prices, and soon the boom became a bust. The [[1926 Miami Hurricane]], which nearly destroyed the city further depressed the real estate market.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Paul S. |last=George|title= Brokers, Binders, and Builders: Greater Miami's Boom of the Mid-1920s|journal= Florida Historical Quarterly|date=July 1986|volume= 65 |issue=1|pages=27–51|jstor=30146317}}</ref> In 1928 another hurricane struck Southern Florida. The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane]] made landfall near [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], severely damaging the local infrastructure. In townships near Lake Okeechobee, the storm breached a dike separating the water from land, creating a [[storm surge]] that killed over 2,000 people and destroying the towns of [[Belle Glade, Florida|Belle Glade]] and [[Pahokee, Florida|Pahokee]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|378}}
Tourists continued to arrive in Florida by train. The introduction of the automobile resulted in an increased number traveling on sometimes macadamized, sometimes dirt roads. The destination was usually Miami or Miami Beach. Roadside attractions included orange shops and alligator wrestling.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Michael | last=Stephens | title=In memory of our state's roadside attractions | url=https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2020/12/14/michael-stephens-memory-floridas-roadside-attractions/3885773001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 11A | date=December 22, 2020 | accessdate=February 19, 2021}}</ref> Tourism was confined to the winter months. Summers were uncomfortably hot for visitors.
===Prohibition===
[[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] had been popular in north Florida, but was opposed in the rest of the south, which became a haven for speakeasies and rum-runners in the 1920s. During 1928–32 a broad coalition of judges, lawyers, politicians, journalists, brewers, hoteliers, retailers, and ordinary Floridians organized to try to repeal the ban on alcohol. When the federal government legalized near beer and light wine in 1933, the wet coalition launched a successful campaign to legalize these beverages at the state level.<ref name="Guthrie 1995 23–39">{{cite journal | first=John J. Jr. |last=Guthrie|title=Rekindling The Spirits: From National Prohibition to Local Option in Florida: 1928–1935 | journal=Florida Historical Quarterly|year= 1995 |volume=74|issue=1|pages= 23–39 | jstor=30148787}}</ref>
Floridians subsequently joined in the national campaign to repeal the 18th Amendment, which succeeded in December 1933. The following November, state voters repealed Florida's constitutional ban on liquor and gave local governments the power to legalize or outlaw alcoholic beverages.<ref name="Guthrie 1995 23–39"/>
===Great Depression===
The [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] began with the Stock Market crash of 1929. By that time, the economy had already declined in much of Florida from the collapse three years earlier of the land boom.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|376}} During the late 1920s and early 1930s Florida would face a variety of problems with some of them stemming from the collapse of the Florida Land Boom and the Great Depression. Two hurricanes with one occurring in [[1926 Miami hurricane|1926]] and another in [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|1928]] would hurt the state further economically.<ref name=":1">{{Cite thesis |last=Evans|first=Jon|date=2011|title=Weathering the Storm: Florida Politics during the Administration of Spessard L. Holland in World War II|type=PhD dissertation|publisher=Florida State University|url=http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-0438|access-date=January 8, 2022}}</ref> The state government would be in debt which was then a violation of Florida's Constitution and over 150 municipalities would also be in debt as they had defaulted on their municipal bonds<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Cox|first=Merlin|date=1964|title=David Sholtz: New Deal Governor of Florida|url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2931&context=fhq|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=43}}</ref> which had mainly been issued as a way to pay for infrastructure during the Florida land boom.<ref name=":1" /> Many property owners often owed taxes to local governments which further worsened the situation. A separate issue would be with Florida's virgin timber crop being virtually cut down by the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shofner|first=Jerrell|date=April 1987|title=Roosevelt's "Tree Army": The Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147841|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=65|issue=4|pages=433–456|jstor=30147841|via=JSTOR}}</ref>
During the [[New Deal]] (1933–40) a variety of projects would be built by the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA). There would be work camps for the young men of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] (CCC).<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|386}} Apart from the New Deal being implemented, Florida would see [[David Sholtz]] become elected as Governor in 1932. As governor, he would manage to implement social welfare programs while simultaneously expanding the amount of tax revenue received by the state government and getting it out of debt. He would also be strongly aligned with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and was a personal friend of his.<ref name=":0"/> Toward the end of Sholtz's tenure his reputation among Floridians which was previously positive would decline as his ethics became questioned. As a result [[Fred P. Cone]] would become elected as governor in 1936. While being governor he would be incredibly hands-off and had a fiscally conservative approach.<ref name=":1" />
From 1930 to 1935, college students selected Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, and Panama City Beach as great places to take a [[spring break]] and party. The 1960s film ''[[Where the Boys Are]]'' increased attendance in Fort Lauderdale to 50,000 annually. When this figure increased to 250,000 in 1985, the city began to pass laws restricting student activities. As a result, students moved to Daytona Beach from 1980 to 1990s. The figure for Fort Lauderdale dropped to 20,000; 350,000 visited Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach passed laws constraining underage drinking. Students then began patronizing Panama City, where 500,000 visited in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Brotemarkle |title=Spring break fun in sun born in 1930s |url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2014/04/01/florida-frontiers-spring-break-fun-sun-born-s/7146479/ |newspaper=Florida Today |location=Melbourne, Florida |pages=11A |date=April 1, 2014 |access-date=April 1, 2014}}</ref>
Florida legalized gambling in 1931 allowing a [[Parimutuel betting]] establishment. By 2014, there were 30 such establishments, generating $200 million in state taxes and fees.<ref name="ft140311">{{Cite news | first=Mike | last=Haridopolos | title=Legislature aims to rewrite gaming rules. 'Complex' issue affects billions of dollars in state revenue | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140311/COLUMNISTS0205/303110004/Legislature-aims-rewrite-state-gaming-rules| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A | date=March 11, 2014 | access-date=March 11, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312072136/http://www.floridatoday.com/proart/20140311/columnists0205/303110004/legislature-aims-rewrite-state-gaming-rules?pagerestricted=1}}</ref>
Anticipating war, the Army and Navy decided to use the state as a primary training area. The Navy chose the coastal areas, the Army, the inland areas.<ref name="i1108">{{Cite journal|first=Klyne |last=Nowlin |date=August 2011 |title=Historians Share Stories About FLorida in WWII |journal=The Intercom |volume=34 |issue=8 |page=9 |url=http://www.moaacc.org/Intercomaug11.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226065206/http://www.moaacc.org/Intercomaug11.pdf |archive-date=December 26, 2011 }}</ref>
In 1940, the population was about 1.5 million. Average annual income was $308 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|308|1940|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars).
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===World War II and the development of the space industry===
[[File:Flaglerstreet Miami 1945.jpg|thumb|Soldiers and crowds in [[Greater Downtown Miami|Downtown Miami]] 20 minutes after Japan's surrender ending World War II (1945).]]
[[File:Aerial View of Launch Complex 39.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Kennedy Space Center]].]]
Prior to the United States entering World War II, Florida was found in polling by [[Gallup, Inc.|Gallup]] to be among the most supportive states for interventionism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rogers |first=Ben |date=1960 |title=Florida in World War II: Tourists and Citrus |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2739&context=fhq |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=39 |issue=1 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |via=STARS}}</ref> In the years leading up to World War II, 100 ships were sunk off the coast of Florida.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100818/LIFE/8180314/New%20book%20highlights%20Florida%20s%20role%20during%20World%20War%20II?GID=TCY2fY/MRMEAyPMROOyxMqf8zGETKpCYE1wGrTNd+mI%3D |title=New book highlights Florida's role during World War II |first=Chris |last=Kridler |date=August 18, 2010 |work=Florida Today|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125015423/http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100818/LIFE/8180314/New%20book%20highlights%20Florida%20s%20role%20during%20World%20War%20II?GID=TCY2fY/MRMEAyPMROOyxMqf8zGETKpCYE1wGrTNd+mI%3D}}</ref> More ships sank after the country entered the war.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}} About 248,000 Floridians served in the war. Around 50,000 of these were African Americans.<ref name="Brotemarkle 5A">{{Cite news | first=Ben | last=Brotemarkle | title=World War II's impact on Florida | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/26/florida-frontiers-remembering-wwiis-impact-florida/705262001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 5A | date=September 27, 2017 | access-date=October 6, 2017}}</ref>
During the war, shipbuilding would make up two-thirds of all industrial growth seen in the state. Thousands of people would be hired by shipbuilding companies during the war to work in Pensacola, Panama City, Jacksonville and Tampa. There would be labor shortages during the war as many of those who worked at industrial jobs were now serving in the military. Local and migrant laborers who worked in the orchards and field would end up leaving for higher paying jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Florida in World War II {{!}} Homefront |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/wwii/homefront/ |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=Florida Memory}}</ref>
The state became a major hub for the [[United States Armed Forces]]. [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]] was originally established as a naval station in 1826 and became the first American naval aviation facility in 1917. The entire nation mobilized for World War II and many bases, especially air bases, were established in Florida, to include:
* [[Naval Air Station Whiting Field]]
* [[Naval Air Station Ellyson Field]]
* [[Tyndall AFB|Tyndall Field]]
* [[Dale Mabry Army Airfield]]
* [[Naval Air Station Jacksonville]]
* [[Naval Station Mayport]]
* [[Naval Air Station Cecil Field]]
* [[Camp Blanding]]
* [[Daytona Beach International Airport|Naval Air Station Daytona Beach]]
* [[Naval Air Station DeLand]]
* [[Naval Air Station Sanford]]
* [[Orlando Executive Airport|Orlando Army Air Base]]
* [[McCoy AFB|Pinecastle Army Airfield]]
* [[Kissimmee Army Airfield]]
* [[Patrick Space Force Base|Naval Air Station Banana River]]
* [[Naval Air Station Melbourne]]
* [[Lakeland Army Airfield]]
* [[Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale]]
* [[Coast Guard Air Station Miami|Naval Air Station Miami]]
* [[Naval Air Station Richmond]]
* [[Page Field Army Airfield]]
* [[Naval Air Station Key West]]
* [[Truman Annex|Naval Station Key West]]
* [[Homestead Air Reserve Base|Homestead Army Air Field]]
Numerous others were also established that exist today as military installations/facilities, civilian airports, or other facilities under different names.
Present day [[Eglin Air Force Base]], [[Hurlburt Field]], and [[MacDill Air Force Base]] (now the home of [[U.S. Central Command]] and [[U.S. Special Operations Command]]) were also developed as [[U.S. Army Air Forces]] installations during this time. During the [[Cold War]], Florida's coastal access and proximity to Cuba encouraged the development of these and other military facilities. Since the end of the Cold War, the military has closed some facilities, including major bases such as [[NAS Sanford]], [[McCoy AFB]], [[NAS Cecil Field]], and NTC Orlando, and realigned others such as Homestead AFB being transferred to the [[Air Force Reserve Command]] and realigned as [[Homestead Air Reserve Base]], or [[Saufley Field|NAS Saufley Field]] realigned as [[Saufley Field|NETPDC Saufley Field]], but their presence is still significant in the state and local economies.
Apart from military bases, Florida would also be home to 22 prisoner of war camps. Starting in May 1943, the Allied powers would send captured Nazi soldiers to the United States with about of 10,000 of them going to 22 camps in Florida. Many of these camps would be located in or near military bases.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kleinberg|first=Eliot|date=January 2, 2022|title=Florida history: German prisoners of war – the enemy in our midst|work=Yahoo! news|agency=Palm Beach Daily News|url=https://news.yahoo.com/florida-history-german-prisoners-war-130017076.html|access-date=January 2, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=War's Impact on Florida: German POWs Held in Camps in Florida|url=https://museumoffloridahistory.com/exhibits/permanent-exhibits/world-war-ii/florida-remembers-world-war-ii/wars-impact-on-florida-german-pows-held-in-camps-in-florida/|url-status=live|access-date=January 2, 2021|website=Museum of Florida History}}</ref>
The population increased by 46% during the 1940s.<ref name="Brotemarkle 5A" />
Because of Cape Canaveral's relative closeness to the equator, compared to other potential locations, it was chosen in 1949 as a test site for the country's nascent missile program. [[Patrick Space Force Base]] and the [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station]] launch site began to take shape as the 1950s progressed. By the early 1960s, the [[Space Race]] was in full swing. As programs were expanded and employees joined, the space program generated a huge boom in the communities around Cape Canaveral. This area is now collectively known as the [[Space Coast]] and features the [[Kennedy Space Center]]. It is also a major center of the [[Aerospace engineering|aerospace industry]]. To date, all crewed orbital spaceflights launched by the United States, including those that carried the only persons to visit the [[Moon]], have been launched from Kennedy Space Center.
===Post-World War II growth, changes and the Civil Rights Movement===
[[File:Five flags of Florida.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Five flags of Florida, not including the current [[Florida State Flag|State Flag.]]]]
Florida's population mix has changed. After World War II, Florida was transformed as the development of [[air conditioning]] and the [[Interstate highway]] system encouraged migration by residents of the North and Midwest.<ref name=":2" />
In 1950, Florida was ranked twentieth among the states in population; 50 years later it was ranked fourth,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t2/tab01.pdf|title=US Census 2000 Table 1. States Ranked by Population|date=April 2, 2001|publisher=Census.gov|url-status=dead|archive-date=2003-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031008124943/https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t2/tab01.pdf}}</ref> and 14 years later was number three.<ref name=fund/><ref>{{cite web |last=Pramuk |first=Jacob |date=December 23, 2014 |title=Move over, NY: This state now 3rd most populous |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/23/florida-surpasses-ny-as-3rd-most-populous-state.html |website=[[CNBC]]}}</ref> Due to low tax rates and warm climate, Florida became the destination for many retirees from the Northeast, Midwest and Canada.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}
Prior to development, Florida salt marshes were capable of producing large numbers of mosquitoes. The [[Aedes sollicitans|salt marsh mosquito]] does not lay its eggs in standing water, preferring moist sand or mud instead. Biologists learned to control them by "source reduction", the process of removing the moist sand needed by the mosquitoes to breed. To achieve this goal, large sections of coastal marshes were either ditched or diked to remove the moist sand that the mosquitoes required to lay eggs on. Together with chemical controls, it yielded a qualified success.<ref>{{cite book|last=Patterson|first=Gordon|title=The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida|year=2004|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville|isbn=978-0813027203}}</ref>
Dramatic changes would also be seen economically in Florida. Agricultural grew during the postwar years and even outpaced the growth of tourism in the state until 1965 when Walt Disney announced the creation of Walt Disney World. Citrus growers doubled their output, cattle ranching expanded in the Kissimmee Valley and farmers began to cultivate the [[Everglades Agricultural Area]] with sugar being the most prominent crop. Sugarcane cultivation would begin to grow significantly in that area after the United States placed an embargo on Cuban sugar in 1959<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Grunwald |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olHjhlx0Em8C |title=The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2007 |isbn=9780743251075 |pages=229–231 |via=Google Books}}</ref> (Cuba was the main supplier of sugar to the United States)<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Outman |first=Catherine Joan |year=2020 |title=Florida's Red Tide: The Hidden Costs of Land Development in the Everglades |type=BA thesis |publisher=Fordham University |page=23 |format=PDF |url=https://research.library.fordham.edu/environ_2015/94/ |via=Fordham Research Commons}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2023}} and repealed the Sugar Act's limits on domestic production. Tourism grew in Florida from 3 million visitors to over 15 million by 1965.<ref name=":3" />
==== Changes in demographics ====
In the early postwar period, the state's population had changed markedly by migration of new groups, as well as emigration of African Americans, 40,000 of whom moved north in earlier decades of the 20th century during the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]].<ref name=rosewood/> By 1960 the number of African Americans in Florida had increased to 880,186, but declined proportionally to 18% of the state's population.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} This was a much smaller proportion than in 1900, when the census showed they comprised 44% of the state's population, while numbering 230,730 persons.<ref name="USCensusOffice1901">{{cite book |title=Bulletins of the Twelfth Census of the United States: No. 61-106; April 5 – Nov. 1, 1901 |date=1901 |publisher=United States Census Office |page=2 |url={{Google books|zqdCAQAAMAAJ|page=2|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> The median age would also end up increasing as the state became a popular destination for retirees; going from 28.8 in 1950 to 39.3 by 2000.<ref name=":2" />
The [[Cuban Revolution]] of 1959 resulted in a large wave of Cuban immigration into South Florida, which transformed Miami into a major center of commerce, finance and transportation for all of Latin America. Emigration from [[Haiti]], other Caribbean states, and Central and South America continues to the present day.<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|476–477}}
The population of Asian-Americans increased in Florida during the postwar years, growing from 1,142 counted by the US Census Bureau in 1950 to 154,302 by 1990. During the 1970s and 1980s Asian-Americans would end up becoming the largest foreign-born group of people in Florida.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mohl |first=Raymond A. |date=Winter 1996 |title=Asian Immigration to Florida |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol74/iss3/3/ |journal=[[The Florida Historical Quarterly]] |publisher=[[Florida Historical Society]] |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=261–286 |via=Showcase of Text, Archive, Research & Scholarship (STARS) from the University of Central Florida}}</ref>
==== Civil Rights movement ====
Like other states in the South, Florida had many African-American leaders who were active in the [[civil rights movement]]. In the 1940s and '50s, a new generation started working on issues, emboldened by veterans who had fought during World War II and wanted to gain more civil rights. [[Harry T. Moore]] built the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] ([[NAACP]]) in Florida, rapidly increasing its membership to 10,000. Because Florida's voter laws were not as restrictive as those of Georgia and Alabama, he had some success in registering black voters. In the 1940s he increased voter registration among black people from 5 to 31% of those age-eligible.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis51.htm#1951moore|title=Murder of Harry & Harriette Moore|date=1951|publisher=Civil Rights Movement History|access-date=2008-03-30}}</ref>
But the state had white groups who resisted change, to the point of attacking and killing black people. In December 1951 whites [[Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore|bombed the house]] of activists Harry Moore and his wife Harriette, who both died of injuries from the blast. Although their murders were not solved then, a state investigation in 2006 reported they had been killed by an independent unit of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Numerous bombings were directed against African Americans in 1951–1952 in Florida.<ref>{{cite book |title=Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South|date=1994|publisher= Alfred A. Knopf|pages=562–563|last=Egerton|first=John}}</ref>
===2000 presidential election controversy===
[[File:Butterfly Ballot, Florida 2000 (large).jpg|thumb|195px|"[[Butterfly ballot]]"]]
{{Main article|2000 United States presidential election in Florida}}
Florida became the battleground of the controversial [[2000 US presidential election]] which took place on November 7, 2000. The count of the popular votes was extremely close, triggering automatic recounts. These recounts triggered accusations of fraud and manipulation, and brought to light voting irregularities in the state.
Subsequent recount efforts degenerated into arguments over mispunched ballots, "[[hanging chad]]s", and controversial decisions by [[Florida Secretary of State]] [[Katherine Harris]] and the [[Florida Supreme Court]]. Ultimately, the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled in ''[[Bush v. Gore]]'' to end all recounts, allowing Harris to certify the election results. The final official Florida count gave the victory to [[George W. Bush]] over [[Al Gore]] by 537 votes, a 0.009% margin of difference. The process was extremely divisive, and led to calls for [[electoral reform in Florida]]. Florida has the strictest laws penalizing and disenfranchising felons and other criminals, even if they have served their sentences. Together with other penalties, it excluded many minorities who may have voted for the Democratic candidate.
===Everglades, hurricanes, drilling and the environment===
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Long-term scientific attention has focused on the fragility of the [[Everglades]]. In 2000 Congress authorized the [[Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan]] (CERP) at $8 billion. The goals are to restore the health of the Everglades ecosystem and maximize the value to people of its land, water, and soil.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Everglades: An Environmental History|date=2000|url={{Google books|cuwlngEACAAJ|plainurl=yes}}|last=McCally|first=David|isbn=9780813018270|publisher=University Press of Florida}}</ref> [[File:Destruction following hurricane andrew.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Destruction in [[Lakes by the Bay, Florida|Lakes by the Bay]] near Miami following Hurricane Andrew]]
[[Hurricane Andrew]] in August 1992 struck [[Homestead, Florida|Homestead]], just south of Miami, as a Category 5 hurricane, leaving forty people dead, 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed, more than a million people left without electricity, and damages of $20–30 billion. Much of South Florida's sensitive vegetation was severely damaged. The region had not seen a storm of such power in decades. Besides heavy property damage, the hurricane nearly destroyed the region's insurance industry.<ref>{{cite book |title=In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew|date=2002|last1=Provenzo|first1=Eugene F. Jr.|last2=Provenzo|first2=Asterine Baker|isbn=978-0813025667|publisher=University Press of Florida}}</ref>
The western panhandle was damaged heavily in [[1995 Atlantic hurricane season|1995]], with hurricanes [[Hurricane Allison (1995)|Allison]], [[Hurricane Erin (1995)|Erin]], and [[Hurricane Opal|Opal]] hitting the area within the span of a few months. The storms increased in strength during the season, culminating with Opal's landfall as a Category 3 in October.
Florida also suffered heavily during the [[2004 Atlantic hurricane season]], when four major storms struck the state. [[Hurricane Charley]] made landfall in Charlotte County area and cut northward through the peninsula, [[Hurricane Frances]] struck the Atlantic coast and drenched most of central Florida with heavy rains, [[Hurricane Ivan]] caused heavy damage in the western Panhandle, and [[Hurricane Jeanne]] caused damage to the same area as Frances, including compounded [[Coastal erosion|beach erosion]]. Damage from all four storms was estimated to be at least $22 billion, with some estimates going as high as $40 billion. In 2005, South Florida was struck by Hurricanes [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]] and [[Hurricane Wilma|Wilma]]. The panhandle was struck by [[Hurricane Dennis]].
In 2016, [[Hurricane Matthew]] paralleled the east coast and caused an estimated $10 billion dollars in damage. In 2017, [[Hurricane Irma]] made a catastrophic category 4 landfall in the [[Florida Keys]], followed by a category 3 landfall in [[Collier County]]. Irma caused over $50 billion dollars in damage in Florida, making it the costliest in Floridian history, until being surpassed by [[Hurricane Ian]] in 2022. In 2018, [[Hurricane Michael]] hit the [[Florida Panhandle]] as a Category 5, the first landfall at that intensity in the [[United States]] since [[Hurricane Andrew]] in 1992. It caused over $20 billion dollars in damage in Florida. In 2022, [[Hurricane Ian]] made landfall in [[Lee County, Florida|Lee County]], killing 146 people and causing over $113 billion dollars in damage, making it the [[List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes|costliest hurricane]] to ever hit Florida and the deadliest since the [[1935 Labor Day Hurricane]].
Florida has historically been at risk from hurricanes and tropical storms. These have resulted in higher risks and property damage as the concentration of population and development has increased along Florida's coastal areas. Not only are more people and property at risk, but development has overtaken the natural system of wetlands and waterways, which used to absorb some of the storms' energy and excess waters.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/FLAwetlands/|title=Florida Wetlands|publisher=US Geological Survey|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810134311/http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/FLAwetlands/|archive-date=August 10, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pielke|first1=Roger|last2=Gratz|first2=Joel|last3=Landsea|first3=Christopher W.|last4=Collins|first4=Douglas|last5=Saunders|first5=Mark A.|last6=Musulin|first6=Rade|date=2008|title=Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251194283|journal=Natural Hazards Review|volume=9|issue=1|pages=29–42|doi=10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2008)9:1(29)|access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/socasp/weather1/pielke.html|title=Trends in Hurricane Impacts in the United States|date=n.d.|publisher=University of Colorado|last=Pielke|first=Roger A. Jr.|access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref>
Environmental issues include preservation and restoration of the Everglades, which has moved slowly. There has been pressure by industry groups to drill for [[Crude oil|oil]] in the eastern [[Gulf of Mexico]] but so far, large-scale drilling off the coasts of Florida has been prevented. The federal government declared the state an agricultural disaster area because of 13 straight days of freezing weather during the growing season in January 2010.<ref>{{Cite news| title=Crist wants ag disaster declared in Florida| url=http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/story/Crist-wants-ag-disaster-declared-in-Florida/LKG_5mjyM0KQcqpawqnCUg.cspx| work=Florida Today| agency=[[Associated Press]]| location=Melbourne, Florida| pages=6B| date=January 16, 2010| access-date=March 10, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116174612/http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/story/Crist-wants-ag-disaster-declared-in-Florida/LKG_5mjyM0KQcqpawqnCUg.cspx| archive-date=January 16, 2010| url-status=dead| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Oranges have been grown and sold in Florida since 1872.<ref name=morton>{{cite web|author=Morton, J|url=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/orange.html|title=Orange, ''Citrus sinensis''|date=1987|publisher=NewCROP, New Crop Resource Online Program, Center for New Crops & Plant Products, Purdue University|pages=134–142}}</ref> Production dropped 59% from the 2008–9 season to the 2016–7 season. The decline was mostly due to [[canker]], [[citrus greening disease]], and hurricane damage.<ref>{{Cite news | first1=Dave | last1=Berman | first2=Wayne T.|last2=Price|title=Citrus growers feel the squeeze | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2017/11/10/brevard-county-florida-citrus-growers-feel-the-squeeze-oranges-grapefruits/840813001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A, 10A | date=November 12, 2017 | access-date=November 12, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111235735/http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2017/11/10/brevard-county-florida-citrus-growers-feel-the-squeeze-oranges-grapefruits/840813001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=}}</ref>
===Fishing===
In 2009–2010, "there were hardly any fish off Florida...they are finding fish all over Florida" in 2016. The federal government believes this is due to federal restraints on fishing.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Ledyard | last=King | title=Scientist:Fish counts suffer from 'perception issue' | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/22/noaa-scientist-says-federal-fish-counts-suffer-perception-issue/79172444/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A | date=January 23, 2016 | access-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref><!---somewhat informal narrative of fishing off Florida, reported in a USA Today article, so soft copy won't match hard copy source, but is the same article--><!---article should probably be used in higher level article on fishing in the US-->
===Infrastructure===
Consistent with usage throughout the country, more than 51% of homes in Florida in 2015 use mobile phones or wireless only.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Jim | last=Saunders | title=Floridians continue pulling plug on landlines | url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/03/floridians-continue-pulling-plug-on-landlines| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 3A | date=August 6, 2017 | access-date=August 7, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808034042/https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/03/floridians-continue-pulling-plug-on-landlines|archive-date=2017-08-08}}</ref>
==Tourism==
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[[File:Winter in Florida.jpg|thumb|175px|Tourists hunting in 1893]]
During the late 19th century, Florida became a popular tourist destination as [[Henry Flagler]]'s railroads expanded into the area.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/18/|title = Episode 17 Travel Dining|date = June 5, 2014|access-date = January 24, 2016|journal = A History of Central Florida Podcast|last = Dickens|first = Bethany}}</ref> In 1891, railroad magnate [[Henry Plant]] built the luxurious [[Tampa Bay Hotel]] in [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]; the hotel was later adapted for use as the campus for the [[University of Tampa]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|269}}
Flagler built the [[Florida East Coast Railway]] from [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] to [[Key West]]. Along the route he provided grand accommodations for passengers, including the [[Ponce de Leon Hotel]] in St. Augustine, the [[Ormond Hotel]] in [[Ormond Beach, Florida|Ormond Beach]], the [[Royal Poinciana Hotel]] and the [[Breakers Hotel]] in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], and the [[Royal Palm Hotel (Miami)|Royal Palm Hotel]] in Miami.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/21/|title = Episode 20 Railroad Bells|date = June 5, 2014|access-date = January 24, 2016|journal = A History of Central Florida Podcast|last = Kelley|first = Katie}}</ref>
In February 1888, Florida had a special tourist: President [[Grover Cleveland]], the first lady, and his party visited Florida for a couple of days. He visited the Subtropical Exposition in Jacksonville, where he made a speech supporting tourism to the state; he took a train to St. Augustine, meeting Henry Flagler; and a train to [[Titusville, Florida|Titusville]], where he boarded a steamboat and visited Rockledge. On his return trip, he visited [[Sanford, Florida|Sanford]] and [[Winter Park, Florida|Winter Park]].
Flagler's railroad connected cities on the east coast of Florida. This created more urbanization along that corridor. Development also followed the construction of Turnpikes I-95 in east Florida, and I-75 in west Florida. These routes aided tourism and urbanization. Northerners from the East Coast used I-95 and tended to settle along that route. People from the MidWest tended to use I-75, and settled along the west coast of Florida.<ref name=ft150628/><!---softcopy not yet filed online by author. probably by July 15, 2015-->
===Theme parks===
[[File:Cinderella Castle @ Magic Kingdom.jpg|thumb|175px|[[Magic Kingdom]] at [[Walt Disney World Resort]]]]
Florida's first theme parks were developed in the 1930s and included [[Cypress Gardens]] (1936) near [[Winter Haven, Florida|Winter Haven]], and [[Marineland (Florida)|Marineland]] (1938) near St. Augustine.
====Disney World====
Disney selected Orlando over several other sites for an updated and expanded version of their Disneyland Park in California. In 1971, [[the Magic Kingdom]], the first component of the <!-- How many acres in development? -->resort, opened and became Florida's best-known attraction, attracting tens of millions of visitors a year. It stimulated the development of other attractions, as well as large tracts of housing and related businesses.<ref>{{cite book |title=Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando|date=2001|publisher=Yale University Press|last=Fogleson|first=Richard|isbn=978-0300098280}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida|last=Mormino|first=Gary|date=August 12, 2008 |publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0813033082}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=12147|title=Wow, What a Ride?|last=Bartley|first=Abel A.|date=2006|publisher=H Net}}</ref>
The [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] area became an international resort and convention destination, featuring a wide variety of themed parks. Other area theme parks include [[Universal Orlando Resort]] and [[SeaWorld]].
===Boating===
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In 2017, 50,000 vessels were damaged by [[Hurricane Irma]]. This resulted in about $500 million worth of damage, predominately in the [[Florida Keys]].<ref>{{Cite news | first=Bill | last=Sargent | title=Florida boater bore brunt of hurricanes | url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/outdoors/bill-sargent/2017/11/10/sargent-florida-boaters-bore-brunt-hurricanes/853564001/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1A | date=November 12, 2017 | access-date=November 12, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112204722/http://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/outdoors/bill-sargent/2017/11/10/sargent-florida-boaters-bore-brunt-hurricanes/853564001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|History|North America|United States|Florida|British Empire}}
{{main article|Historical outline of Florida|Timeline of Florida History}}
* [[Florida Historical Society]]
* [[History of the Southern United States]]
* [[Indigenous people of the Everglades region]]
* [[Maritime History of Florida]]
* [[Museum of Florida History]]
* [[State Library and Archives of Florida]]
* [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum]]
*[[Women's suffrage in Florida]]
; History of places in Florida
* [[History of Brevard County, Florida]]
* [[History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida]]
* [[History of Jacksonville, Florida]]
* [[History of Miami]]
* [[Timeline of Orlando, Florida]]
* [[History of Pensacola, Florida]]
* [[History of Sarasota, Florida]]
* [[History of St. Petersburg, Florida]]
* [[History of Tampa, Florida]]
* [[History of Tallahassee, Florida]]
* [[History of West Palm Beach, Florida]]
* [[History of Ybor City]]
==References==
{{Reflist|40em}}
==Further reading==
{{Politics of Florida}}
===Surveys===
* Colburn, David R. and deHaven-Smith, Lance. ''Government in the Sunshine State: Florida since Statehood.'' (1999). 168 pp.
* Colburn, David R. and Landers, Jane L., eds. ''The African American Heritage of Florida.'' (1995). 392 pp.
* Fernald, Edward A. and Purdum, Elizabeth, eds. ''Atlas of Florida.'' (1992). 280 pp.
* Gannon, Michael. ''The New History of Florida''. [[University Press of Florida]]: 1996. {{ISBN|0-8130-1415-8}}. 480pp
* Gannon, Michael. ''Florida: A Short History'' (2003) 192 pages
* George, Paul S., ed. ''A Guide to the History of Florida.'' (1989). 300 pp.
* Manley, Walter W., II and Brown, Canter Jr., eds. ''The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972'' (2007)
===Indians and colonial===
* Brown, Robin C. ''Florida's First People: 12,000 Years of Human History''. [[Pineapple Press]]: 1994. {{ISBN|1-56164-032-8}}.
* Henderson, Ann L., and Gary R. Mormino. ''Spanish Pathways in Florida: 1492–1992''. Pineapple Press: 1991. {{ISBN|1-56164-004-2}}.
* Landers, Jane. ''Black Society in Spanish Florida''. [[University of Illinois Press]]: 1999. {{ISBN|0-252-06753-3}}
* Milanich, Jerald T. ''Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present.'' (1998). 224 pp.
* Murphree, Daniel S. ''Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783'' (2007)
===To 1900===
* Baptist, Edward E. ''Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War.'' (2002) 408 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=9052 online review]
* Brown, Canter, Jr. ''Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor.'' (1997). 320 pp. on reconstruction
* Brown, Canter Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. ''For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864–1905.''(2004) 268ppl the other large black church [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=10833 online review]
* Hoffman, Paul E. ''Florida's Frontiers.'' (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier series.) (2002). 470 pp.
* Klingman, Peter D. "Race and Faction in the Public Career of Florida's Josiah T. Walls." in Howard N. Rabinowitz, ed. ''Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era'' (1982). 59–78.
* Klingman, Peter D. ''Josiah Walls: Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction'' (1976).
* {{cite book |last1=Knetsch |first1=Joe |title=Florida in the Spanish-American War |date=2011 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=9781609490881}}
* Kokomoor, Kevin. "A Re-assessment of Seminoles, Africans, and Slavery on the Florida Frontier", ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Fall 2009, Vol. 88 Issue 2, pp 209–236
* Nulty, William H. ''Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee.'' (1990).
* Revels, Tracy J. ''Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War.'' (2004) 221 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=10988 online review]
* Richardson, Joe M. "Jonathan C. Gibbs: Florida's Only Negro Cabinet Member." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' 42.4 (1964): 363–368. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30140048 in JSTOR]
* Rivers, Larry Eugene. ''Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.'' (2000). 369 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6308 online review]
* Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Brown, Canter, Jr. ''Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865–1895.'' (2001). 244 pp. history of the leading black denomination; [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6811 online review]
* Sprague, John T. ''The Florida War.'' (1964), on Seminole war 597 pp.
* Taylor, Robert A. ''Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy.'' (1995). 218 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=170 online review]
* Warren, Harris G. "Textbook Writers and the Florida" Purchase" Myth." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' 41.4 (1963): 325–331 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30139962 online]
===20th century===
* Akin, Edward N. ''Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.'' (1988). 305 pp.
* Colburn, David R. and deHaven-Smith, Lance. ''Florida's Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida.'' (2002). 161 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6760 online review]
* Colburn, David R. ''From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940.'' (2007) 272pp [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=14680 online review]
* Colburn, David R. and Scher, Richard K. ''Florida's Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century.'' (1980). 342 pp.
* Kleinberg, Eliot. ''War in Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida.'' (1999). 96pp.
* Klingman, Peter D. ''Neither Dies nor Surrenders: A History of the Republican Party in Florida, 1867–1970.'' (1984). 233 pp.
* Manley, Walter W., II and Canter Brown. ''The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972.'' (2006). 428 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22804 online review]
* Newton, Michael. ''The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida.'' (2001). 260 pp.
*Peirce, Neal R. ''The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States''. 1974
* Rowe, Anne E. ''The Idea of Florida in the American Literary Imagination.'' (1986). 159 pp.
* Stuart, John A., and [[John F. Stack]], eds. ''The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933–1940.'' 263 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23065 online review]
* Vickers, Raymond B. ''Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926.'' (1994). 336 pp.
* Wagy, Tom R. ''Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida: Spokesman of the New South.'' (1985). 264 pp. Democratic governor 1955–61
===Regions, social and economic history===
* Carlson, Amanda B., and Robin Poynor, eds. ''Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State'' (University Press of Florida, 2014) 462 pp. heavily illustrated.
* Drobney, Jeffrey. ''Lumbermen and Log Sawyers: Life, Labor, and Culture in the North Florida Timber Industry, 1830–1930.'' (1997). 241 pp.
* Faherty, William Barnaby ''Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State.'' (2002) 224pp [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=8438 online review]
* Grant, Roger H. ''Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad'' (2007)
* Hann, John H. ''Apalachee: The Land between the Rivers.'' (1988). 450 pp.
* Hollander, Gail M. ''Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida'' (2007)
* McNally, Michael J. ''Catholic Parish Life on Florida's West Coast, 1860–1968.'' (1996). 503 pp.
* Middleton, Sallie. "Space Rush: Local Impact of Federal Aerospace Programs on Brevard and Surrounding Counties", ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Fall 2008, Vol. 87 Issue 2, pp 258–289
* Otis, Katherine Ann. "Everything Old Is New Again: A Social and Cultural History of Life on the Retirement Frontier, 1950–2000" PhD dissertation; ''Dissertation Abstracts International'', 2008, Vol. 69 Issue 4, p 1513–1513
* Stronge, William B. ''The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War'' (2008)
* Turner, Gregg M. ''A Journey into Florida Railroad History'' (2008)
===Environment===
* Barnes, Jay. ''Florida's Hurricane History.'' (1998). 330 pp.
* Barnett, Cynthia. ''Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.'' (2007). 240 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23145 online review]
* Grunwald, Michael, "Swamped: Harry Truman, South Florida, and the Changing Political Geography of American Conservation", in ''The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman'', ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, pp 75–88. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009) . xxxvi, 145 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-931112-93-2}}
* Kendrick, Baynard. ''A History of Florida Forests'' (2 vol 2007)
* McCally, David. ''The Everglades: An Environmental History.'' (1999). 215 pp.
* Miller, James J. ''An Environmental History of Northeast Florida.'' (1998). 223 pp.
* Ogden, Laura. "The Everglades Ecosystem and the Politics of Nature", ''American Anthropologist'', March 2008, Vol. 110 Issue 1, pp 21–32
* Poole, Leslie Kemp. ''Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century'' (University Press of Florida, 2015). x, 274 pp.
* Williams, John M. and Duedall, Iver W. ''Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871–2001.'' (2002). 176 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6853 online review]
===Primary sources===
* Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, and James David Glunt, eds. ''Florida Plantation Records: From the Papers of George Noble Jones.'' (University Press of Florida, 2006). 596 pp. {{ISBN|0-8130-2976-7}}; Originally published in 1927.
* Romans, Bernard. ''A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida.'' ed. by Kathryn E. Holland Braund, (1999). 442 pp. online review travel in 1770s
==External links==
* [http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/ Florida Bureau of Archeological Research]
* [http://www.floridamemory.com/ Florida Memory] over 500,000 photographs and documents from the State Archives of Florida.
* Boston Public Library, Map Center. [http://maps.bpl.org/explore/location/florida-6 Maps of Florida], various dates.
* [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10086 "Map of the Peninsula of Florida"] from ca. 1639 via the [[World Digital Library]]
* [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/ A History of Central Florida Podcast]
* [https://www.ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers Florida Digital Newspaper Library] hosted at the [[George A. Smathers Libraries]] at the [[University of Florida]]
* [http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History]
{{U.S. political divisions histories}}
{{Florida}}
{{Spanish Empire}}
{{Authority control}}
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==Territory and statehood==
-===Florida Territory (1822–1845)===
-{{Main article|Florida Territory}} {{See also|Seminole Wars}}
-[[File:Andrew Jackson.jpg|thumb|150px|Andrew Jackson served as the first military [[Governor of Florida]].]]
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-[[Florida Territory]] became an [[organized territory]] of the United States on March 30, 1822. The U.S. merged [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]] (although the majority of West Florida was annexed to [[Territory of Orleans]] and [[Mississippi Territory]]), and established a new capital in [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]], conveniently located halfway between the East Florida capital of St. Augustine and the West Florida capital of Pensacola. The boundaries of Florida's first two counties, [[Escambia County, Florida|Escambia]] and [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns]], approximately coincided with the boundaries of West and East Florida respectively.
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-The free black and Indigenous slaves, Black Seminoles, living near St. Augustine, fled to Havana, Cuba to avoid coming under US control. Some Seminole also abandoned their settlements and moved further south.<ref>{{cite book|last=Simmons|first=William H.|title= Notices of East Florida : with an account of the Seminole nation of Indians|year=1822|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|page=42|oclc=1049959679|url=https://archive.org/details/noticesofeastflo00simm/page/n6/mode/2up}}</ref> Hundreds of [[Black Seminoles]] and fugitive slaves escaped in the early nineteenth century from [[Cape Florida]] to [[The Bahamas]], where they settled on [[Andros Island]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mulroy|first=Kevin|title=The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Race and Culture in the American West)|year=2007|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|page=26|isbn=978-0806153476}}</ref>
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-[[File:Osceola.png|thumb|Seminole leader [[Osceola]].]]
-As settlement increased, pressure grew on the United States government to remove the Indians from their lands in Florida. Many settlers in Florida developed plantation agriculture, similar to other areas of the Deep South. To the consternation of new landowners, the Seminoles harbored and integrated runaway black slaves, and clashes between whites and Indians grew with the influx of new settlers.
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-In 1832, the United States government signed the [[Treaty of Payne's Landing]] with some of the Seminole chiefs, promising them lands west of the Mississippi River if they agreed to leave Florida voluntarily. Many Seminoles left then, while those who remained prepared to defend their claims to the land. White settlers pressured the government to remove all of the Indians, by force if necessary, and in 1835, the U.S. Army arrived to enforce the treaty.
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-The [[Second Seminole War]] began at the end of 1835 with the [[Dade Battle]], when Seminoles ambushed Army troops marching from [[Fort Brooke]] (Tampa) to reinforce [[Fort King]] (Ocala).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dade-report.jpg|title=From Florida|publisher=Daily National Intelligencer|date=January 27, 1836|url-status=live|archive-date=2011-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714102456/https://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dade-report.jpg}}</ref> They killed or mortally wounded all but one of the 110 troops. Between 900 and 1,500 Seminole warriors effectively employed guerrilla tactics against United States Army troops for seven years. Osceola, a charismatic young war leader, came to symbolize the war and the Seminoles after he was arrested by Brigadier General [[Joseph Marion Hernandez]] while negotiating under a white truce flag in October 1837, by order of General [[Thomas Jesup]]. First imprisoned at [[Fort Marion]], he died of [[malaria]] at [[Fort Moultrie]] in [[South Carolina]] less than three months after his capture. The war ended in 1842. The U.S. government is estimated to have spent between $20 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|20000000|1842|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) and $40 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|40000000|1842|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) on the war; at the time, this was considered a large sum. Almost all of the Seminoles were forcibly exiled to Creek lands west of the Mississippi; several hundred remained in the [[Everglades]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|156}}
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0 => '===Florida Territory (1822–1845)===',
1 => '{{Main article|Florida Territory}} {{See also|Seminole Wars}}',
2 => '[[File:Andrew Jackson.jpg|thumb|150px|Andrew Jackson served as the first military [[Governor of Florida]].]]',
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4 => '[[Florida Territory]] became an [[organized territory]] of the United States on March 30, 1822. The U.S. merged [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]] (although the majority of West Florida was annexed to [[Territory of Orleans]] and [[Mississippi Territory]]), and established a new capital in [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]], conveniently located halfway between the East Florida capital of St. Augustine and the West Florida capital of Pensacola. The boundaries of Florida's first two counties, [[Escambia County, Florida|Escambia]] and [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns]], approximately coincided with the boundaries of West and East Florida respectively.',
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6 => 'The free black and Indigenous slaves, Black Seminoles, living near St. Augustine, fled to Havana, Cuba to avoid coming under US control. Some Seminole also abandoned their settlements and moved further south.<ref>{{cite book|last=Simmons|first=William H.|title= Notices of East Florida : with an account of the Seminole nation of Indians|year=1822|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|page=42|oclc=1049959679|url=https://archive.org/details/noticesofeastflo00simm/page/n6/mode/2up}}</ref> Hundreds of [[Black Seminoles]] and fugitive slaves escaped in the early nineteenth century from [[Cape Florida]] to [[The Bahamas]], where they settled on [[Andros Island]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mulroy|first=Kevin|title=The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Race and Culture in the American West)|year=2007|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|page=26|isbn=978-0806153476}}</ref>',
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8 => '[[File:Osceola.png|thumb|Seminole leader [[Osceola]].]]',
9 => 'As settlement increased, pressure grew on the United States government to remove the Indians from their lands in Florida. Many settlers in Florida developed plantation agriculture, similar to other areas of the Deep South. To the consternation of new landowners, the Seminoles harbored and integrated runaway black slaves, and clashes between whites and Indians grew with the influx of new settlers.',
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11 => 'In 1832, the United States government signed the [[Treaty of Payne's Landing]] with some of the Seminole chiefs, promising them lands west of the Mississippi River if they agreed to leave Florida voluntarily. Many Seminoles left then, while those who remained prepared to defend their claims to the land. White settlers pressured the government to remove all of the Indians, by force if necessary, and in 1835, the U.S. Army arrived to enforce the treaty.',
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13 => 'The [[Second Seminole War]] began at the end of 1835 with the [[Dade Battle]], when Seminoles ambushed Army troops marching from [[Fort Brooke]] (Tampa) to reinforce [[Fort King]] (Ocala).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dade-report.jpg|title=From Florida|publisher=Daily National Intelligencer|date=January 27, 1836|url-status=live|archive-date=2011-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714102456/https://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dade-report.jpg}}</ref> They killed or mortally wounded all but one of the 110 troops. Between 900 and 1,500 Seminole warriors effectively employed guerrilla tactics against United States Army troops for seven years. Osceola, a charismatic young war leader, came to symbolize the war and the Seminoles after he was arrested by Brigadier General [[Joseph Marion Hernandez]] while negotiating under a white truce flag in October 1837, by order of General [[Thomas Jesup]]. First imprisoned at [[Fort Marion]], he died of [[malaria]] at [[Fort Moultrie]] in [[South Carolina]] less than three months after his capture. The war ended in 1842. The U.S. government is estimated to have spent between $20 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|20000000|1842|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) and $40 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|40000000|1842|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) on the war; at the time, this was considered a large sum. Almost all of the Seminoles were forcibly exiled to Creek lands west of the Mississippi; several hundred remained in the [[Everglades]].<ref name=tebeau/>{{rp|156}}'
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peoples of the Americas">Native American</a> history</div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Histories_of_cities_in_Florida" title="Category:Histories of cities in Florida">Cities</a> - <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Histories_of_counties_in_Florida" title="Category:Histories of counties in Florida">Counties</a> - <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Political_history_of_Florida" title="Category:Political history of Florida">Politics</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><i><b>Pre-history, until 1497</b></i></li>
<li><i><b><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Spain">Spanish Rule</a>, 1513–1763</b></i></li>
<li><i><b><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British Rule</a>, 1763–1783:</b></i>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, 1775–1783</li></ul></li>
<li><i><b>Spanish Rule, 1783–1821:</b></i>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, 1811–1814</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/First_Seminole_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Seminole War">First Seminole War</a>, 1817–1818</li></ul></li>
<li><i><b><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Territory" title="Florida Territory">U.S. Territorial Period</a>, 1822–1845:</b></i>
<ul><li>Capitol moved to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tallahassee,_Florida" title="Tallahassee, Florida">Tallahassee</a>, 1824</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Second_Seminole_War" title="Second Seminole War">Second Seminole War</a>, 1835–1842</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">Constitutional convention</a>, 1838</li></ul></li>
<li><i><b><a href="/enwiki/wiki/U.S._State" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. State">Statehood</a>, 1845–present:</b></i>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Third_Seminole_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Seminole War">Third Seminole War</a>, 1855–1858</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Ordinance of Secession</a>, 1861</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Florida in the American Civil War">Civil War</a>, 1861–1865</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">3rd Constitution</a>, 1865</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction era of the United States">Reconstruction</a>, 1865–1868</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">4th Constitution</a>, 1868</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">5th Constitution</a>, 1885</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a>, 1910–1930</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s" title="Florida land boom of the 1920s">Land Boom</a>, 1925–1929</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">6th Constitution</a>, 1968</li>
<li><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gore_v._Harris" class="mw-redirect" title="Gore v. Harris">Gore v. Harris</a></i>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2000" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election in Florida, 2000">Presidential Election</a>, 2000</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Florida" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Florida">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, 2020–present</li></ul></div></div></td>
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<p>The <b>history of Florida</b> can be traced to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Recorded_history" title="Recorded history">written history</a> begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a> in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">conquistador</a></i>, who called the peninsula <i>La Pascua Florida</i> in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pascua_Florida" title="Pascua Florida">Pascua Florida</a></i> (Festival of Flowers).<sup id="cite_ref-Chang-Rodríguez2006_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chang-Rodríguez2006-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vega2010_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vega2010-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Steigman2005_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steigman2005-4">[4]</a></sup>
</p><p>This area was the first mainland realm of the United States to be settled by Europeans, starting in 1513. Since then Florida has had many waves of colonization and immigration, including French and Spanish settlement during the 16th century, as well as entry of new Native American groups migrating from elsewhere in the South, and free black people and fugitive slaves, who in the 19th century became allied with the Native Americans as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Black_Seminoles" title="Black Seminoles">Black Seminoles</a>. Florida was under colonial rule by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spain</a> from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">Great Britain</a> during the 18th century (1763–1783). Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Territory" title="Florida Territory">territory</a> of the United States in 1821. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state.
</p><p>Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" due to its warm climate and days of sunshine. Florida's sunny climate, many beaches, and growth of industries have attracted northern migrants within the United States, international migrants, and vacationers since the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s" title="Florida land boom of the 1920s">Florida land boom of the 1920s</a>. A diverse population, urbanization, and a diverse economy would develop in Florida throughout the 20th century. In 2014, Florida with over 19 million people, surpassed New York and became the third most <a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population" title="List of U.S. states and territories by population">populous state in the U.S.</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>The economy of Florida has changed over its history, starting with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Exploitation_of_natural_resources" title="Exploitation of natural resources">natural resource exploitation</a> in logging, mining, fishing, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sponge_diving" title="Sponge diving">sponge diving</a>; as well as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ranch" title="Ranch">cattle ranching</a>, farming, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Citrus" title="Citrus">citrus growing</a>. The tourism, real estate, trade, banking, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Retirement_community" title="Retirement community">retirement destination</a> businesses would develop as economic sectors later on.
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_history"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early history</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Geology"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Geology</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#First_Floridians"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">First Floridians</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#European_contact_and_aftermath"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">European contact and aftermath</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Colonial_battleground"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Colonial battleground</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#First_Spanish_rule_(1513–1763)"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">First Spanish rule (1513–1763)</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#Fugitive_slaves_and_conflicts"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Fugitive slaves and conflicts</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#British_rule_(1763–1783)"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">British rule (1763–1783)</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Florida_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Florida in the American Revolutionary War</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Departure_of_the_British"><span class="tocnumber">2.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Departure of the British</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Second_Spanish_rule_(1783–1821)"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Second Spanish rule (1783–1821)</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#Republic_of_West_Florida"><span class="tocnumber">2.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Republic of West Florida</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="#Republic_of_East_Florida"><span class="tocnumber">2.3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Republic of East Florida</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14"><a href="#First_Seminole_War"><span class="tocnumber">2.3.3</span> <span class="toctext">First Seminole War</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15"><a href="#End_of_Spanish_control"><span class="tocnumber">2.3.4</span> <span class="toctext">End of Spanish control</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Territory_and_statehood"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Territory and statehood</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Statehood_(1845)"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Statehood (1845)</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#Civil_War_through_late_19th_century"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Civil War through late 19th century</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#American_Civil_War"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">American Civil War</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Reconstruction_era"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Reconstruction era</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Disenfranchisement"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Disenfranchisement</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Spanish–American_War"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">Spanish–American War</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Since_1900"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Since 1900</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Race_relations"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Race relations</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Boom_of_1920s"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Boom of 1920s</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Prohibition"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">Prohibition</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Great_Depression"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span> <span class="toctext">Great Depression</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#World_War_II_and_the_development_of_the_space_industry"><span class="tocnumber">5.5</span> <span class="toctext">World War II and the development of the space industry</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29"><a href="#Post-World_War_II_growth,_changes_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement"><span class="tocnumber">5.6</span> <span class="toctext">Post-World War II growth, changes and the Civil Rights Movement</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-30"><a href="#Changes_in_demographics"><span class="tocnumber">5.6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Changes in demographics</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-31"><a href="#Civil_Rights_movement"><span class="tocnumber">5.6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Civil Rights movement</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#2000_presidential_election_controversy"><span class="tocnumber">5.7</span> <span class="toctext">2000 presidential election controversy</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="#Everglades,_hurricanes,_drilling_and_the_environment"><span class="tocnumber">5.8</span> <span class="toctext">Everglades, hurricanes, drilling and the environment</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34"><a href="#Fishing"><span class="tocnumber">5.9</span> <span class="toctext">Fishing</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Infrastructure"><span class="tocnumber">5.10</span> <span class="toctext">Infrastructure</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36"><a href="#Tourism"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Tourism</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#Theme_parks"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Theme parks</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-38"><a href="#Disney_World"><span class="tocnumber">6.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Disney World</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-39"><a href="#Boating"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Boating</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-40"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-41"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-42"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-43"><a href="#Surveys"><span class="tocnumber">9.1</span> <span class="toctext">Surveys</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-44"><a href="#Indians_and_colonial"><span class="tocnumber">9.2</span> <span class="toctext">Indians and colonial</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-45"><a href="#To_1900"><span class="tocnumber">9.3</span> <span class="toctext">To 1900</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-46"><a href="#20th_century"><span class="tocnumber">9.4</span> <span class="toctext">20th century</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-47"><a href="#Regions,_social_and_economic_history"><span class="tocnumber">9.5</span> <span class="toctext">Regions, social and economic history</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-48"><a href="#Environment"><span class="tocnumber">9.6</span> <span class="toctext">Environment</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-49"><a href="#Primary_sources"><span class="tocnumber">9.7</span> <span class="toctext">Primary sources</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-50"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_history">Early history</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early history">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Geology">Geology</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geology">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Shell_Midden,_Enterprise,_FL.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Shell_Midden%2C_Enterprise%2C_FL.jpg/250px-Shell_Midden%2C_Enterprise%2C_FL.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="156" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Shell_Midden%2C_Enterprise%2C_FL.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="341" data-file-height="213" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Shell_Midden,_Enterprise,_FL.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A shell <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Midden" title="Midden">midden</a> at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Enterprise,_Florida" title="Enterprise, Florida">Enterprise, Florida</a> in 1875.</div></div></div>
<p>The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gondwana" title="Gondwana">Gondwana</a> at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Laurentia" title="Laurentia">Laurentia</a> 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator. By then, Florida was surrounded by desert, in the middle of a new continent, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pangaea" title="Pangaea">Pangaea</a>. When Pangaea broke up 115 mya, Florida assumed a shape as a peninsula.<sup id="cite_ref-Hine2013_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hine2013-6">[6]</a></sup>
The emergent <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Landmass" title="Landmass">landmass</a> of Florida was <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orange_Island_(Florida)" title="Orange Island (Florida)">Orange Island</a>, a low-relief island sitting atop the carbonate <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Platform" title="Florida Platform">Florida Platform</a> which emerged about 34 to 28 million years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> When <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation" title="Quaternary glaciation">glaciation</a> locked up the world's water, starting 2.58 million years ago, the sea level dropped precipitously. It was approximately 100 meters (330 ft) lower than present levels. As a result, the Florida peninsula not only emerged, but had a land area about twice what it is today. Florida also had a drier and cooler climate than in more recent times. There were few flowing rivers or <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetlands</a>.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="First_Floridians">First Floridians</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: First Floridians">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033289096">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Florida" title="Indigenous peoples of Florida">Indigenous peoples of Florida</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indigenous_people_of_the_Everglades_region" title="Indigenous people of the Everglades region">Indigenous people of the Everglades region</a></div>
<p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Paleo-Indians" title="Paleo-Indians">Paleo-Indians</a> entered what is now Florida at least 14,000 years ago, during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Last_glacial_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Last glacial period">last glacial period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-purdy_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-purdy-8">[8]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> With lower sea levels, the Florida peninsula was much wider, and the climate was cooler and much drier than in the present day. Fresh water was available only in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sinkhole" title="Sinkhole">sinkholes</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> catchment basins, and paleo-Indian activity centered around these relatively scarce watering holes. Sinkholes and basins in the beds of modern rivers (such as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Page-Ladson" class="mw-redirect" title="Page-Ladson">Page-Ladson</a> site in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Aucilla_River" title="Aucilla River">Aucilla River</a>) have yielded a rich trove of paleo-Indian <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Artifact_(archaeology)" title="Artifact (archaeology)">artifacts</a>, including <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Clovis_point" title="Clovis point">Clovis points</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-milanich98_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-milanich98-9">[9]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3–12">: 3–12 </span></sup>
</p><p>Excavations at an ancient stone <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Quarry" title="Quarry">quarry</a> (the Container Corporation of America site in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marion_County,_Florida" title="Marion County, Florida">Marion County</a>) yielded "crude stone implements" showing signs of extensive wear from deposits below those holding Paleo-Indian artifacts. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Thermoluminescence_dating" title="Thermoluminescence dating">Thermoluminescence dating</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Weathering" title="Weathering">weathering</a> analysis independently gave dates of 26,000 to 28,000 years ago for the creation of the artifacts. The findings are controversial, and funding has not been available for follow-up studies.<sup id="cite_ref-purdy_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-purdy-8">[8]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 106–115">: 106–115 </span></sup>
</p><p>As the glaciers began retreating about 8000 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">BCE</a>, the climate of Florida became warmer and wetter. As the glaciers melted, the sea level rose, reducing the land mass. Many prehistoric habitation sites along the old coastline were slowly submerged, making artifacts from early coastal cultures difficult to find.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> The paleo-Indian culture was replaced by, or evolved into, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Archaic_period_in_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaic period in the Americas">Early Archaic culture</a>. With an increase in population and more water available, the people occupied many more locations, as evidenced by numerous artifacts. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Archeology" class="mw-redirect" title="Archeology">Archaeologists</a> have learned much about the Early Archaic people of Florida from the discoveries made at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Windover_Archeological_Site" title="Windover Archeological Site">Windover Pond</a>. The Early Archaic period evolved into the Middle Archaic period around 5000 BC. People started living in villages near wetlands and along the coast at favored sites that were likely occupied for multiple generations.
</p><p>The Late Archaic period started about 3000 BC, when Florida's climate had reached current conditions and the sea had risen close to its present level. People commonly occupied both fresh and saltwater wetlands. Large shell <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Middens" class="mw-redirect" title="Middens">middens</a> accumulated during this period. Many people lived in large villages with purpose-built <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Earthworks_(archaeology)" title="Earthworks (archaeology)">earthwork</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mound" title="Mound">mounds</a>, such as at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Horr%27s_Island" title="Horr's Island">Horr's Island</a>, which had the largest permanently occupied community in the Archaic period in the southeastern United States. It also has the oldest <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Burial_mound" class="mw-redirect" title="Burial mound">burial mound</a> in the East, dating to about 1450 BC. People began making fired pottery in Florida by 2000 BC. By about 500 BC, the Archaic culture, which had been fairly uniform across Florida, began to fragment into regional cultures.<sup id="cite_ref-milanich98_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-milanich98-9">[9]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 12–37">: 12–37 </span></sup>
</p><p>The post-Archaic cultures of eastern and southern Florida developed in relative isolation. It is likely that the peoples living in those areas at the time of first European contact were direct descendants of the inhabitants of the areas in late Archaic and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Woodland_period" title="Woodland period">Woodland</a> times. The cultures of the Florida panhandle and the north and central <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf</a> coast of the Florida peninsula were strongly influenced by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mississippian_culture" title="Mississippian culture">Mississippian culture</a>, producing two local variants known as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pensacola_culture" title="Pensacola culture">Pensacola culture</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Walton_culture" title="Fort Walton culture">Fort Walton culture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MARRINAN2007_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MARRINAN2007-11">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WEINSTEIN2008_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WEINSTEIN2008-12">[12]</a></sup>
</p><p>Continuity in cultural history suggests that the peoples of those areas were also descended from the inhabitants of the Archaic period. In the panhandle and the northern part of the peninsula, people adopted cultivation of maize. Its cultivation was restricted or absent among the tribes who lived south of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Timucua_language" title="Timucua language">Timucuan</a>-speaking people (i.e., south of a line approximately from present-day <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Daytona_Beach,_Florida" title="Daytona Beach, Florida">Daytona Beach, Florida</a> to a point on or north of Tampa Bay.)<sup id="cite_ref-milanich98_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-milanich98-9">[9]</a></sup> Peoples in southern Florida depended on the rich estuarine environment and developed a highly complex society without agriculture.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="European_contact_and_aftermath">European contact and aftermath</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: European contact and aftermath">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Flindians1723.JPG" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Flindians1723.JPG/250px-Flindians1723.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="198" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Flindians1723.JPG/375px-Flindians1723.JPG 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Flindians1723.JPG 2x" data-file-width="429" data-file-height="340" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Flindians1723.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bernard_Picart" title="Bernard Picart">Bernard Picart</a> Copper Plate Engraving of Florida Indians, circa 1721<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></div></div></div>
<p>At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes. (Anthropologist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Henry_F._Dobyns" title="Henry F. Dobyns">Henry F. Dobyns</a> has estimated that as many as 700,000 people lived in Florida in 1492).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> sent Spanish explorers recording nearly one hundred names of groups they encountered, ranging from organized political entities such as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Apalachee" title="Apalachee">Apalachee</a>, with a population of around 50,000, to villages with no known political affiliation. There were an estimated 150,000 speakers of dialects of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Timucua_language" title="Timucua language">Timucua language</a>, but the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Timucua" title="Timucua">Timucua</a> were organized as groups of villages and did not share a common culture.<sup id="cite_ref-milanich95_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-milanich95-15">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 1–2, 82">: 1–2, 82 </span></sup> Other tribes in Florida at the time of first contact included the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ais_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ais (tribe)">Ais</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Calusa" title="Calusa">Calusa</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jaega" title="Jaega">Jaega</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mayaimi" title="Mayaimi">Mayaimi</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tequesta" title="Tequesta">Tequesta</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tocobaga" title="Tocobaga">Tocobaga</a>.
</p><p>The populations of all of these tribes decreased markedly during the period of Spanish control of Florida, mostly due to epidemics of newly introduced <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Infectious_diseases" class="mw-redirect" title="Infectious diseases">infectious diseases</a>, to which the Native Americans had no natural <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Immunity_(medical)" title="Immunity (medical)">immunity</a>. Beginning late in the 17th century, when most of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" title="Indigenous peoples">indigenous peoples</a> were already much reduced in population, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Apalachicola_Province#Attacks_on_Spanish_missions" title="Apalachicola Province">peoples</a> from areas to the north of Florida, supplied with arms and occasionally accompanied by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/White_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (people)">white</a> colonists from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">Province of Carolina</a>, raided throughout Florida. They burned villages, wounded many of the inhabitants and carried captives back to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charles Towne</a> to be sold into <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>. Most of the villages in Florida were abandoned, and the survivors sought refuge at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine</a> or in isolated spots around the state. Many tribes became extinct during this period and by the end of the 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-milanich95_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-milanich95-15">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 213–228">: 213–228 </span></sup>
</p><p>Some of the Apalachee eventually reached Louisiana, where they survived as a distinct group for at least another century. The Spanish evacuated the few surviving members of the Florida tribes to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> in 1763 when Spain transferred the territory of Florida to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> following the latter's victory against France in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-milanich95_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-milanich95-15">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 227–231">: 227–231 </span></sup> In the aftermath, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a>, originally an offshoot of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Creek_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Creek people">Creek people</a> who absorbed other groups, developed as a distinct tribe in Florida during the 18th century through the process of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ethnogenesis" title="Ethnogenesis">ethnogenesis</a>. They have three federally recognized tribes: the largest is the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seminole_Nation_of_Oklahoma" title="Seminole Nation of Oklahoma">Seminole Nation of Oklahoma</a>, formed of descendants since removal in the 1830s; others are the smaller <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seminole_Tribe_of_Florida" title="Seminole Tribe of Florida">Seminole Tribe of Florida</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miccosukee_Tribe_of_Indians_of_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida">Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida</a>.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Colonial_battleground">Colonial battleground</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Colonial battleground">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:RUIDIAZ(1893)_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/RUIDIAZ%281893%29_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg/200px-RUIDIAZ%281893%29_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="260" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/RUIDIAZ%281893%29_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg/300px-RUIDIAZ%281893%29_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/RUIDIAZ%281893%29_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg/400px-RUIDIAZ%281893%29_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1019" data-file-height="1325" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:RUIDIAZ(1893)_1.083_JUAN_PONCE_DE_LE%C3%93N.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a> was one of the first Europeans to set foot in the current United States; he led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.</div></div></div>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">Spanish Florida</a></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg/200px-Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="207" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg/300px-Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg/400px-Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg 2x" data-file-width="855" data-file-height="887" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Cantino_Map_-_1502_-_Florida.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A depiction of what might be Florida from the 1502 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cantino_planisphere" title="Cantino planisphere">Cantino map</a></div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg/200px-Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg" decoding="async" width="200" height="155" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg/300px-Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg/400px-Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1950" data-file-height="1507" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Florida_worship_french_column_1591.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Timucua Indians at a column erected by the French in 1562</div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:1527-TeraFlorida.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/1527-TeraFlorida.jpg/200px-1527-TeraFlorida.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="105" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/1527-TeraFlorida.jpg/300px-1527-TeraFlorida.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/1527-TeraFlorida.jpg/400px-1527-TeraFlorida.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1798" data-file-height="941" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:1527-TeraFlorida.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A 1527 map by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Vesconte_Maggiolo" class="mw-redirect" title="Vesconte Maggiolo">Vesconte Maggiolo</a> showing the east coast of North America with "Tera Florida" at the top and "Lavoradore" at the bottom.</div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg/200px-Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg" decoding="async" width="200" height="145" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg/300px-Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg/400px-Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="3501" data-file-height="2542" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Florida_Moyne_1591.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A 1591 map of Florida by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacques_le_Moyne" title="Jacques le Moyne">Jacques le Moyne de Morgues</a>.</div></div></div>
<p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a>, a famous Spanish conqueror and explorer, is usually given credit for being the first European to sight Florida in 1513, but he probably had predecessors. Florida and much of the nearby coast is depicted in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cantino_planisphere" title="Cantino planisphere">Cantino planisphere</a>, an early world map which was surreptitiously copied in 1502 from the most current <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Portuguese_discoveries" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese discoveries">Portuguese sailing charts</a> and smuggled into Italy a full decade before Ponce sailed north from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> on his voyage of exploration. Ponce de León may not have even been the first Spaniard to go ashore in Florida; slave traders may have secretly raided native villages before Ponce arrived, as he encountered at least one indigenous tribesman who spoke Spanish.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> However, Ponce's 1513 expedition to Florida was the first open and official one. He also gave Florida its name, which means "full of flowers."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> A dubious legend states that Ponce de León was searching for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fountain_of_Youth" title="Fountain of Youth">Fountain of Youth</a> on the island of Bimini, based on information from natives.<sup id="cite_ref-Peck_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peck-18">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup>
</p><p>On March 3, 1513, Juan Ponce de León organized and equipped three ships for an expedition departing from "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Aguada,_Puerto_Rico" title="Aguada, Puerto Rico">Punta Aguada</a>," Puerto Rico. The expedition included 200 people, including women and free black people.
</p><p>Although it is often stated that he sighted the peninsula for the first time on March 27, 1513, and thought it was an island, he probably saw one of the Bahamas at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup> He went ashore on Florida's east coast during the Spanish Easter feast, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pascua_Florida" title="Pascua Florida">Pascua Florida</a>, on April 7 and named the land <i>La Pascua de la Florida.</i> After briefly exploring the land south of present-day <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine</a>, the expedition sailed south to the bottom of the Florida peninsula, through the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Keys" title="Florida Keys">Florida Keys</a>, and up the west coast as far north as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charlotte_Harbor,_Florida" title="Charlotte Harbor, Florida">Charlotte Harbor</a>, where they briefly skirmished with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Calusa" title="Calusa">Calusa</a> before heading back to Puerto Rico.
</p><p>From 1513 onward, the land became known as <i>La Florida</i>. After 1630, and throughout the 18th century, Tegesta (after the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tequesta" title="Tequesta">Tequesta</a> tribe) was an alternate name of choice for the Florida peninsula following publication of a map by the Dutch cartographer <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hessel_Gerritsz" title="Hessel Gerritsz">Hessel Gerritsz</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Joannes_de_Laet" title="Joannes de Laet">Joannes de Laet</a>'s <i>History of the New World</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-De_Bow's_Review,_Vol._XXII_Third_Series_Vol._II_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-De_Bow's_Review,_Vol._XXII_Third_Series_Vol._II-23">[23]</a></sup>
</p><p>Further Spanish attempts to explore and colonize Florida were disastrous. Ponce de León returned to the Charlotte Harbor area in 1521 with equipment and settlers to start a colony, but was soon driven off by hostile Calusa, and de León died in Cuba from wounds received in the fighting. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_Narv%C3%A1ez" title="Pánfilo de Narváez">Pánfilo de Narváez</a>'s expedition explored Florida's west coast in 1528, but his violent demands for gold and food led to hostile relations with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tocobaga" title="Tocobaga">Tocobaga</a> and other native groups. Facing starvation and unable to find his support ships, Narváez attempted return to Mexico via rafts, but all were lost at sea and only four members of the expedition survived. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(explorer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hernando de Soto (explorer)">Hernando de Soto</a> landed in Florida in 1539 and began a multi-year trek through what is now the southeastern United States in which he found no gold and lost his life. In 1559 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_de_Luna_y_Arellano" title="Tristán de Luna y Arellano">Tristán de Luna y Arellano</a> established the first settlement in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida" title="Pensacola, Florida">Pensacola</a> but, after a violent hurricane destroyed the area, it was abandoned in 1561.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup>
</p><p>The horse, which the natives had hunted to extinction 10,000 years ago,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> was reintroduced into North America by the European explorers, and into Florida in 1538.<sup id="cite_ref-IberianOrigins_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IberianOrigins-26">[26]</a></sup> As the animals were lost or stolen, they began to become feral.
</p><p>In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Timeline_of_Florida_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of Florida History">1564</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goulaine_de_Laudonni%C3%A8re" title="René Goulaine de Laudonnière">René Goulaine de Laudonnière</a> founded <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Caroline" title="Fort Caroline">Fort Caroline</a> in what is now <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a>, as a haven for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> Protestant refugees from religious persecution in France.<sup id="cite_ref-RowlandMooreRogers_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RowlandMooreRogers-27">[27]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 26">: 26 </span></sup> Further down the coast, in 1565 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a> founded San Agustín (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-RowlandMooreRogers_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RowlandMooreRogers-27">[27]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 27">: 27 </span></sup> which is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in any U.S. state. It is second oldest only to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico" title="San Juan, Puerto Rico">San Juan, Puerto Rico</a>, in the United States' current territory. From this base of operations, the Spanish began building <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_Florida" title="Spanish missions in Florida">Catholic missions</a>.
</p><p>All colonial cities were founded near the mouths of rivers. St. Augustine was founded where the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Matanzas_Inlet" title="Matanzas Inlet">Matanzas Inlet</a> permitted access to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Matanzas_River" title="Matanzas River">Matanzas River</a>. Other cities were founded on the sea with similar inlets: Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Pensacola, Tampa, Fort Myers, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-ft150628_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft150628-28">[28]</a></sup>
</p><p>On September 20, 1565, Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline, killing most of the French Huguenot defenders.<sup id="cite_ref-RowlandMooreRogers_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RowlandMooreRogers-27">[27]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 28">: 28 </span></sup> Two years later, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dominique_de_Gourgue" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominique de Gourgue">Dominique de Gourgue</a> recaptured the settlement for France, this time slaughtering the Spanish defenders.
</p><p>St. Augustine became the most important settlement in Florida. Little more than a fort, it was frequently attacked and burned, with most residents killed or fled. It was notably devastated in 1586, when English sea captain and sometime pirate Sir <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Francis Drake</a> plundered and burned the city. Catholic missionaries used St. Augustine as a base of operations to establish over 100 far-flung missions throughout Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-Han1990_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Han1990-29">[29]</a></sup> They converted 26,000 natives by 1655, but a revolt in 1656 and an epidemic in 1659 proved devastating. Pirate attacks and British raids were unrelenting, and the town was burned to the ground several times until Spain fortified it with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos" title="Castillo de San Marcos">Castillo de San Marcos</a> (1672) and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Matanzas" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Matanzas">Fort Matanzas</a> (1742).
</p><p>African slaves used primarily for labor were first introduced to Spanish Florida as early as 1580, when officials asked for permission to import slaves to bolster the workforce in and around St. Augustine. However, due to restrictions by the Spanish crown, the population of African slaves in Florida remained relatively low until around the period of British control in 1763.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith2017_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith2017-30">[30]</a></sup>
</p><p>Throughout the 17th century, English settlers in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">Carolina</a> gradually pushed the boundaries of Spanish territory south, while the French settlements along the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> encroached on the western borders of the Spanish claim. In 1702, Governor of Carolina <a href="/enwiki/wiki/James_Moore_Sr." title="James Moore Sr.">James Moore</a> and allied <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yamasee" title="Yamasee">Yamasee</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Creek_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Creek people">Creek Indians</a> attacked and razed the town of St. Augustine, but they could not gain control of the fort. In 1704, Moore and his soldiers began burning Spanish missions in north Florida and executing Indians friendly with the Spanish. The collapse of the Spanish mission system and the defeat of the Spanish-allied <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Apalachee" title="Apalachee">Apalachee</a> Indians (the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Apalachee_massacre" title="Apalachee massacre">Apalachee massacre</a>) opened Florida up to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas">slave raids</a>, which reached to the Florida Keys and decimated the native population. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yamasee_War" title="Yamasee War">Yamasee War</a> of 1715–1717 in the Carolinas resulted in numerous Indian refugees, such as the Yamasee, moving south to Florida. In 1719, the French captured the Spanish settlement at Pensacola.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup>
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<p>The border between the British colony of Georgia and Spanish Florida was never clearly defined, and was the subject of constant harassment in both directions, until it was ceded by Spain to the U.S. in 1821. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Monarchy_of_Spain" title="Monarchy of Spain">Spanish Crown</a>, beginning with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain" title="Charles II of Spain">King Charles II</a> in 1693, encouraged <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fugitive_slaves_in_the_United_States" title="Fugitive slaves in the United States">fugitive slaves</a> from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">British North American colonies</a> to escape and offered them freedom and refuge if they converted to Catholicism. This was well known through word of mouth in the colonies of Georgia and South Carolina, and hundreds of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Slavery_in_the_colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the colonial history of the United States">enslaved Africans</a> escaped to their freedom, which infuriated colonists in the British North American colonies. They settled in a buffer community north of St. Augustine, called <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Mose_Historic_State_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Mose Historic State Park">Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose</a>, the first settlement made of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Free_people_of_color" title="Free people of color">free black people</a> in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup>
</p><p>During this period, the British (including their North American colonies) repeatedly attacked Spanish Florida, especially in 1702 and again in 1740, when a large force under <a href="/enwiki/wiki/James_Oglethorpe" title="James Oglethorpe">James Oglethorpe</a> sailed south from Georgia and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_St._Augustine_(1740)" title="Siege of St. Augustine (1740)">besieged St. Augustine</a>, but was unable to capture the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos" title="Castillo de San Marcos">Castillo de San Marcos</a>. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake" title="1755 Lisbon earthquake">1755 Lisbon earthquake</a> triggered a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tsunami" title="Tsunami">tsunami</a> that would have struck Central Florida with an estimated 1.5-meter (4 ft 11 in) wave.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup>
</p><p>Creek and Seminole Native Americans, who had established buffer settlements in Florida at the invitation of the Spanish government, also welcomed any fugitive slaves which reached their settlements. In 1771, Governor <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_Moultrie_(politician)" title="John Moultrie (politician)">John Moultrie</a> wrote to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Board_of_Trade" title="Board of Trade">Board of Trade</a> that "it has been a practice for a good while past, for negroes to run away from their Masters, and get into the Indian towns, from whence it proved very difficult to get them back." When British colonial officials in Florida pressed the Seminole to return runaway slaves, they replied that they had "merely given hungry people food, and invited the slaveholders to catch the runaways themselves."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup>
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/East_Florida" title="East Florida">East Florida</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/West_Florida" title="West Florida">West Florida</a></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:West_Florida_Map_1767.svg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/West_Florida_Map_1767.svg/300px-West_Florida_Map_1767.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="206" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/West_Florida_Map_1767.svg/450px-West_Florida_Map_1767.svg.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/West_Florida_Map_1767.svg/600px-West_Florida_Map_1767.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="115" data-file-height="79" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:West_Florida_Map_1767.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The expanded West Florida territory in 1767.</div></div></div>
<p>In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Timeline_of_Florida_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of Florida History">1763</a>, Spain traded Florida to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a> for control of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Havana" title="Havana">Havana</a>, Cuba, which <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Havana_(1762)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Havana (1762)">had been captured</a> by the British during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>. It was part of a large expansion of British territory following the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Britain_in_the_Seven_Years%27_War" title="Great Britain in the Seven Years' War">country's victory in the Seven Years' War</a>. Almost the entire Spanish population left, taking along most of the remaining indigenous population to Cuba. The British divided the territory into <a href="/enwiki/wiki/East_Florida" title="East Florida">East Florida</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/West_Florida" title="West Florida">West Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/docs/f/florbrit.htm_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/docs/f/florbrit.htm-35">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup> The British soon constructed the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/King%27s_Road_(Florida)" title="King's Road (Florida)">King's Road</a> connecting St. Augustine to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Province_of_Georgia" title="Province of Georgia">Georgia</a>. The road crossed the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Johns_River" title="St. Johns River">St. Johns River</a> at a narrow point, which the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a> called <i>Wacca Pilatka</i> and the British named "Cow Ford", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> The British government gave land grants to officers and soldiers who had fought in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a> in order to encourage settlement. In order to induce settlers to move to the two new colonies reports of the natural wealth of Florida were published in England. A large number of British colonists who were "energetic and of good character" moved to Florida, mostly coming from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> and England, though there was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a>. This would be the first permanent English-speaking population in what is now <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Duval_County,_Florida" title="Duval County, Florida">Duval County</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Baker_County,_Florida" title="Baker County, Florida">Baker County</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Johns_County,_Florida" title="St. Johns County, Florida">St. Johns County</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nassau_County,_Florida" title="Nassau County, Florida">Nassau County</a>. The British built good public roads and introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo, and fruits, as well the export of lumber. As a result of these initiatives northeastern Florida prospered economically in a way it never did under Spanish rule. Furthermore, the British governors were directed to call general assemblies as soon as possible to make laws for the Floridas and in the meantime they were, with the advice of councils, to establish courts. This would be the first introduction of much of the English-derived legal system which Florida still has today, including <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jury_Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Jury Trial">trial by jury</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a>, and county-based government.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup>
</p><p>A <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a> settler named Dr. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Andrew_Turnbull_(colonist)" title="Andrew Turnbull (colonist)">Andrew Turnbull</a> transplanted around 1,500 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indentured" class="mw-redirect" title="Indentured">indentured</a> settlers, from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Menorca" title="Menorca">Menorca</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Majorca" class="mw-redirect" title="Majorca">Majorca</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ibiza" title="Ibiza">Ibiza</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Smyrna" title="Smyrna">Smyrna</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mani_Peninsula" title="Mani Peninsula">Mani Peninsula</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, to grow <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hemp" title="Hemp">hemp</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sugarcane" title="Sugarcane">sugarcane</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indigo" title="Indigo">indigo</a>, and to produce <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rum" title="Rum">rum</a>. Settled at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Smyrna_Beach,_Florida" title="New Smyrna Beach, Florida">New Smyrna</a>, within months the colony suffered major losses primarily due to insect-borne diseases and Native American raids. Most crops did not do well in the sandy Florida soil. Those that survived rarely equaled the quality produced in other colonies. The colonists tired of their servitude and Turnbull's rule. On several occasions, he used African <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Slaves" class="mw-redirect" title="Slaves">slaves</a> to whip his unruly settlers. The settlement collapsed and the survivors fled to safety with the British authorities in St. Augustine. Their descendants survive to this day, as does the name New Smyrna.
</p><p>In 1767, the British moved the northern boundary of West Florida to a line extending from the mouth of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Yazoo_River" title="Yazoo River">Yazoo River</a> east to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chattahoochee_River" title="Chattahoochee River">Chattahoochee River</a> (32° 28′north latitude), consisting of approximately the lower third of the present states of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>. During this time, Creek Indians migrated into Florida and formed the Seminole tribe.
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When representatives from thirteen North American colonies <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">declared independence from Great Britain</a> in 1776, many Floridians condemned the action. East and West Florida were backwater outposts whose populations included a large percentage of British military personnel and their families. There was little trade in or out of the colonies, so they were largely unaffected by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act Crisis of 1765</a> and other taxes and policies which brought other British colonies together in common interest against a shared threat. Thus, a majority of Florida residents were <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalists</a>, and both East and West Florida declined to send representatives to any sessions of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a>.
</p><p>Governor <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Patrick_Tonyn" title="Patrick Tonyn">Patrick Tonyn</a> raised four black militia units to protect East Florida. Enslaved blacks who fought for the British Crown were promised freedom. However, due to the passing of stricter slave codes and the efforts of slave owners, few of those who fought were granted their freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, Florida Loyalists fighting for the English Crown participated in raids against the Patriot forces in South Carolina and Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup> Continental forces attempted to invade East Florida early in the conflict, but they were defeated on May 17, 1777, at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Thomas_Creek" title="Battle of Thomas Creek">Battle of Thomas Creek</a> in today's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nassau_County,_Florida" title="Nassau County, Florida">Nassau County</a> when American Colonel John Baker surrendered to the British.<sup id="cite_ref-upperstjohn2004_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-upperstjohn2004-44">[44]</a></sup> Another American incursion into the same area was repelled at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Alligator_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Alligator Bridge">Battle of Alligator Bridge</a> on June 30, 1778.
</p><p>The two Floridas remained loyal to Great Britain throughout the war. However, Spain, participating indirectly in the war as an ally of France, captured <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Pensacola_(1781)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Pensacola (1781)">Pensacola</a> from the British in 1781. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Peace_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Peace of Paris (1783)">Peace of Paris (1783)</a> ended the Revolutionary War and returned all of Florida to Spanish control, but without specifying the boundaries. The Spanish wanted the expanded northern boundary Britain had made to West Florida, while the new United States demanded the old boundary at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/31st_parallel_north" title="31st parallel north">31st parallel north</a>. This <a href="/enwiki/wiki/West_Florida_Controversy" title="West Florida Controversy">border controversy</a> was resolved in the 1795 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Lorenzo" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of San Lorenzo">Treaty of San Lorenzo</a> when Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the boundary.
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<p>Just as most residents of Spanish Florida had left when Britain gained possession of the territory in 1763, the impending return to Spanish control in 1783 saw a vast exodus of those who had settled in the area over the previous twenty years. This included many <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalists</a> who had fled there during the American War of Independence and had caused East Florida's population to swell considerably if temporarily.<sup id="cite_ref-Fhq_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fhq-45">[45]</a></sup>
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<h3><span id="Second_Spanish_rule_.281783.E2.80.931821.29"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Second_Spanish_rule_(1783–1821)">Second Spanish rule (1783–1821)</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Second Spanish rule (1783–1821)">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>Spain's reoccupation of Florida involved the arrival of some officials and soldiers at St. Augustine and Pensacola but very few new settlers. Most British residents had departed, leaving much of the territory depopulated and unguarded. North Florida continued to be the home of the newly amalgamated black–native American Seminole culture and a haven for people escaping slavery in the southern United States. Settlers in southern Georgia demanded that Spain control the Seminole population and capture runaway slaves, to which Spain replied that the slave owners were welcome to recapture the runaways themselves.
</p><p>Americans began moving into northern Florida from the backwoods of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>. Though technically not allowed by the Spanish authorities, the Spanish were never able to effectively police the border region, and a mix of American settlers, escaped slaves, and Native Americans would continue to migrate into Florida unchecked. The American migrants, mixing with the few remaining settlers from Florida's British period, would be the progenitors of the population known as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Cracker" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Cracker">Florida Crackers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Republic_of_West_Florida">Republic of West Florida</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Republic of West Florida">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
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<p>Ignoring Spanish territorial claims, American settlers, along with some remaining British settlers, established a permanent foothold in the western end of West Florida during the first decade of the 1800s. In the summer of 1810, they began planning a rebellion against Spanish rule which became open revolt in September. The rebels overcame the Spanish garrison at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana" title="Baton Rouge, Louisiana">Baton Rouge</a> and proclaimed the "Free and Independent Republic of West Florida" on September 23. (None of it was within what is today the state of Florida.) Their flag was the original "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bonnie_Blue_Flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonnie Blue Flag">Bonnie Blue Flag</a>", a single white star on a blue field. On October 27, 1810, most of the Republic of West Florida was annexed by proclamation of President <a href="/enwiki/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>, who claimed that the region was included in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase" title="Louisiana Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</a> and incorporated it into the newly formed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Territory_of_Orleans" title="Territory of Orleans">Territory of Orleans</a>. Some leaders of the newly declared republic objected to the takeover, but all had deferred to arriving American troops by mid-December 1810. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Parishes" title="Florida Parishes">Florida Parishes</a> of the modern state of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> include most of the territory claimed by the short-lived Republic of West Florida.
</p><p>Spain sided with Great Britain during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, and the U.S. annexed the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mobile_District" title="Mobile District">Mobile District</a> of West Florida to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mississippi_Territory" title="Mississippi Territory">Mississippi Territory</a> in May 1812. The surrender of Spanish forces at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mobile,_Alabama" title="Mobile, Alabama">Mobile</a> in April 1813 officially established American control over the area, which was eventually divided between the states of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>.
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Republic_of_East_Florida">Republic of East Florida</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Republic of East Florida">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
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<p>In March 1812, a small independent band of Americans took control of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Amelia_Island" title="Amelia Island">Amelia Island</a> on the Atlantic coast. They declared that they were now an independent republic free from Spanish rule in what would become known as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Patriot_War_(Florida)" title="Patriot War (Florida)">Patriot War</a>. The revolt was organized by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/George_Mathews_(Georgia)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Mathews (Georgia)">General George Mathews</a> of the U.S. Army, who had been authorized to secretly negotiate with the Spanish governor for American acquisition of East Florida. Instead, Mathews organized a group of frontiersmen in Georgia, who arrived at the Spanish town of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fernandina,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Fernandina, Florida">Fernandina</a> and demanded the surrender of all of Amelia Island. Upon declaring the island a republic, he led his volunteers along with a contingent of regular army troops south towards St. Augustine. Upon hearing of Mathews' actions, the government became alarmed that he would provoke war with Spain. Secretary of State <a href="/enwiki/wiki/James_Monroe" title="James Monroe">James Monroe</a> ordered Matthews to return all captured territory to Spanish authorities. After several months of negotiations on the withdrawal of the Americans and compensation for their foraging through the countryside, the countries came to an agreement, and Amelia Island was returned to the Spanish in May 1813.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup>
</p><p>A similar filibuster action took place in September of 1817, when the Scottish veteran and con-man <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor" title="Gregor MacGregor">Gregor MacGregor</a> led a private force and captured Amelia Island and declared it part of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Republic_of_the_Floridas" title="Republic of the Floridas">Republic of the Floridas</a>. By December of 1817, the United States seized the island.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="First_Seminole_War">First Seminole War</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: First Seminole War">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
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<p>The unguarded Florida border was an increasing source of tension late in the second Spanish period. Seminoles based in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/East_Florida" title="East Florida">East Florida</a> had been accused of raiding Georgia settlements, and settlers were angered by the stream of slaves escaping into Florida, where they were welcomed. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Negro_Fort" title="Negro Fort">Negro Fort</a>, an abandoned British fortification in the far west of the territory, was manned by both indigenous and black people. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> would lead increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> that became known later as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/First_Seminole_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Seminole War">First Seminole War</a>. Jackson took temporary control of Pensacola in 1818, and though he withdrew due to Spanish objections, the United States continued to effectively control much of West Florida. According to Secretary of State <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams" title="John Quincy Adams">John Quincy Adams</a>, this was necessary because Florida had become "a derelict open to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States, and serving no other earthly purpose than as a post of annoyance to them."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="End_of_Spanish_control">End of Spanish control</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: End of Spanish control">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
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<p>After Jackson's incursions, Spain decided that Florida had become too much of a burden, as it could not afford to send settlers or garrisons to properly occupy the land and was receiving very little revenue from the territory. Madrid therefore decided to cede Florida to the United States. The transfer was negotiated as part of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty" title="Adams–Onís Treaty">Adams–Onís Treaty</a>, which also settled several boundary disputes between Spanish colonies and the U.S. in exchange for American payment of $5,000,000 in claims against the Spanish government.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 156">: 156 </span></sup> The treaty was signed in 1819 and took effect in 1821, and the United States formally took possession of Florida on July 17, 1821.
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<h3><span id="Statehood_.281845.29"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Statehood_(1845)">Statehood (1845)</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Statehood (1845)">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America. Its first governor was <a href="/enwiki/wiki/William_Dunn_Moseley" title="William Dunn Moseley">William Dunn Moseley</a>.
</p><p>Almost half the state's population were enslaved African Americans working on large cotton and sugar <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Plantations_in_the_American_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Plantations in the American South">plantations</a>, between the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Apalachicola_River" title="Apalachicola River">Apalachicola</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Suwannee_River" title="Suwannee River">Suwannee</a> rivers in the north central part of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 158">: 158 </span></sup> Like the people who owned them, many slaves had come from the coastal areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. They were part of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gullah" title="Gullah">Gullah</a>–<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Geechee" class="mw-redirect" title="Geechee">Geechee</a> culture of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lowcountry" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowcountry">Lowcountry</a>. Others were enslaved African Americans from the upper South who had been sold to traders taking slaves to the deep South.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20179–11_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20179–11-51">[51]</a></sup>
</p><p>In the 1850s, with the potential transfer of ownership of federal land to the state, including Seminole land, the federal government decided to convince the remaining Seminoles to emigrate. The Army reactivated Fort Harvie and renamed it to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Myers,_Florida" title="Fort Myers, Florida">Fort Myers</a>. Increased Army patrols led to hostilities, and eventually a Seminole attack on Fort Myers which killed two United States soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 155">: 155 </span></sup> The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Third_Seminole_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Seminole War">Third Seminole War</a> lasted from 1855 to 1858 which ended with most of the remaining Seminoles, mostly women and children moving to Indian Territory. In 1859, another 75 Seminoles surrendered and were sent to the West, but a small number continued to live in the Everglades.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 156">: 156 </span></sup>
</p><p>On the eve of the Civil War, Florida had the smallest population of the Southern states. It was invested in plantation agriculture, which was dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans. By 1860, Florida had 140,424 people, of whom 44% were enslaved and fewer than 1,000 were <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Free_black" class="mw-redirect" title="Free black">free people of color</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 157">: 157 </span></sup> Florida also had one of the highest per capita murder rates prior to the Civil War, thanks to a weakened central government, the institution of slavery, and a troubled political history.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="American_Civil_War">American Civil War</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: American Civil War">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Florida in the American Civil War">Florida in the American Civil War</a></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Battle_of_Olustee.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Battle_of_Olustee.jpg/250px-Battle_of_Olustee.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="158" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Battle_of_Olustee.jpg/375px-Battle_of_Olustee.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Battle_of_Olustee.jpg/500px-Battle_of_Olustee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="411" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Battle_of_Olustee.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Olustee" title="Battle of Olustee">Battle of Olustee</a> was the only major Civil War battle fought in Florida.</div></div></div>
<p>Following <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida" title="1860 United States presidential election in Florida">election in 1860</a>, Florida joined other Southern states in seceding from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Secession" title="Secession">Secession</a> took place January 10, 1861, and after less than a month as an independent republic, Florida became one of the founding seven states of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate States of America</a>. During the Civil War, Florida was an important supply route for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate Army</a>. Therefore, Union forces operated a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_blockade" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval blockade">naval blockade</a> around the entire state, and Union troops occupied major ports such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cedar_Key,_Florida" title="Cedar Key, Florida">Cedar Key</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Key_West,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Key West, Florida">Key West</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pensacola" class="mw-redirect" title="Pensacola">Pensacola</a>. Though numerous skirmishes occurred in Florida, including the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Natural_Bridge" title="Battle of Natural Bridge">Battle of Natural Bridge</a>, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Marianna" title="Battle of Marianna">Battle of Marianna</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Gainesville" title="Battle of Gainesville">Battle of Gainesville</a>, the only major battle was the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Olustee" title="Battle of Olustee">Battle of Olustee</a> near <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lake_City,_Florida" title="Lake City, Florida">Lake City</a>.
</p><p>In 1861, at the start of the war, the state had a population of roughly 140,000, with half of that being enslaved African Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup> In spite of the state's relatively small population, Florida did send several units to fight up north, most notably the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1st_Florida_Infantry_Regiment" title="1st Florida Infantry Regiment">1st Florida</a>, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/8th_Florida_Infantry_Regiment" title="8th Florida Infantry Regiment">8th Florida</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/3rd_Florida_Infantry_Regiment" title="3rd Florida Infantry Regiment">3rd Florida Infantry Regiment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a></sup>
</p><p>Most of the population were not enthusiastic about the secession, and the Unionist movement that was a minority in Florida between 1861 and 1862 increased notably during the last three years of the war, especially in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida">Tampa</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sarasota,_Florida" title="Sarasota, Florida">Sarasota</a> and most of South and Northwest Florida, where <a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_Florida_Union_Civil_War_units" title="List of Florida Union Civil War units">Unionist regiments</a> were formed. At the time of the end of the war, most Floridians deserted the Confederate Army and the government in Florida was under anarchy until the Union troops returned to Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Reconstruction_era">Reconstruction era</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Reconstruction era">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>During the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a> that followed the Civil War, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">moderate Republicans</a> took charge of the state, first led by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Harrison_Reed_(politician)" title="Harrison Reed (politician)"> Governor Harrison Reed</a>. In order to combat the increasing growing <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>, Reed mobilized black and white militias and purchased two thousand rifles in New York with which to arm them. However, the train carrying the arms was attacked by members of the Klan and the weapons were lost.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a></sup>
</p><p>The moderate regime plunged into complicated maneuvering and infighting. It drafted a conservative constitution. The extended contest between liberals and radicals inside the Republican Party alienated so many voters that the Democrats took power. They rigged elections, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Disenfranchisement" class="mw-redirect" title="Disenfranchisement">disenfranchised</a> black voters, and made the state a reliable part of the "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Solid_South" title="Solid South">Solid South</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup>
</p><p>A <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Constitution#The_1868_Florida_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Constitution">state convention was held in 1868 to rewrite the constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DuBois_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DuBois-58">[58]</a></sup> After meeting the requirements of Congress, including ratification of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">13th</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution</a>, Florida was readmitted to the Union on July 4, 1868.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a></sup> This did not end the struggle for political power among groups in the state. Southern whites objected to freedmen's political participation and complained of illiterate representatives to the state legislature. But of the six members who could not read or write during the seven years of Republican rule, four were white.<sup id="cite_ref-DuBois_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DuBois-58">[58]</a></sup>
</p><p>After <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Compromise_of_1877" title="Compromise of 1877">Federal troops left the South in 1877</a>, conservative white Democrats engaged in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Voter_suppression" title="Voter suppression">voter suppression</a> and intimidation, regaining control of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_state_legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida state legislature">state legislature</a>. This was accomplished partly through violent actions by white paramilitary groups targeting freedmen and their allies to discourage them from voting.
</p><p>Thanks to government enticements, entrepreneurs like <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Henry_Flagler" title="Henry Flagler">Henry Flagler</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Henry_B._Plant" title="Henry B. Plant">Henry B. Plant</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hamilton_Disston" title="Hamilton Disston">Hamilton Disston</a>, invested heavily in Florida, especially its infrastructure. The development of railroads and other transportation in the state led the population to almost double in the 1880s and 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Disenfranchisement">Disenfranchisement</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Disenfranchisement">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_by_State#Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Jim Crow law examples by State">List of Jim Crow law examples by State § Florida</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)#Florida" title="Black Codes (United States)">Black Codes (United States) § Florida</a></div>
<p>From 1885 to 1889, after regaining power, the white-dominated state legislature passed statutes to impose <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Poll_tax" title="Poll tax">poll taxes</a> and other barriers to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">voter registration</a> and voting, to eliminate voting by black people and poor whites. These two groups had threatened white Democratic power with a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">populist</a> coalition. As these groups were stripped from voter rolls, white Democrats established power in a one-party state, as happened across the South.
</p><p>In this period, white violence rose against black people, particularly in the form of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lynching" title="Lynching">lynchings</a>, which reached a peak around the turn of the century.<sup id="cite_ref-davis_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davis-61">[61]</a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Freeze" title="Great Freeze">Great Freeze</a> of 1894–5 ruined citrus crops, which had a detrimental ripple effect on the economy of Central Florida in particular.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a></sup> By 1900 the state's African Americans numbered more than 200,000, roughly 44 percent of the total population. This was the same proportion as before the Civil War, and they were effectively disenfranchised.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Not being able to vote meant they could not sit on juries, and were not elected to local, state or federal offices. They also were not recruited for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">law enforcement</a> or other government positions. After the end of Reconstruction, the Florida legislature passed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws" title="Jim Crow laws">Jim Crow laws</a> establishing <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">racial segregation</a> in public facilities and transportation. Separate railroad cars or sections of cars for different races were required beginning in 1887.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a></sup> Separate waiting rooms at railroad stations were required beginning in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a></sup>
</p><p>Without political representation, African Americans found that their facilities were underfunded and they were pushed into a second-class position. For more than six decades, white Democrats controlled virtually all the state's seats in Congress, which were apportioned based on the total population of the state rather than only the whites who voted.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (February 2018)">dubious</span></a> <span class="metadata"> – <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Talk:History_of_Florida#Dubious" title="Talk:History of Florida">discuss</a></span></i>]</sup>
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<p>After the start of the first liberation war in Cuba, known as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ten_Years%27_War" title="Ten Years' War">Ten Years' War</a>, around 100,000 Cubans fled their homes to avoid the violence and upheaval. Generally speaking, the rich and middle class Cubans settled in Europe or northern cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Meanwhile, the more poor workers ended up settling in south Florida, first in Key West and then eventually in Tampa. However, there were also a number of Spanish living in Florida. Because of the heterogeneous nature of Florida's population, there were both pro and anti-war sentiments leading up to the start of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a></sup>
</p><p>Because of their proximity to Cuba, Floridians worried that their cities could come under direct attack with the outbreak of war.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a></sup> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida">Tampa</a> would serve as an embarkation port for troops heading to Cuba. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nelson_A._Miles" title="Nelson A. Miles">Major General Nelson A. Miles</a> ordered a base built in Miami despite earlier rejections by a board of officers. Soldiers began arriving on June 24, 1898. They were volunteers, mostly from the southern states.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Since_1900">Since 1900</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Since 1900">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>In 1900, Florida was largely agricultural and frontier; most Floridians lived within 50 miles of the Georgia border. The population grew from 529,000 in 1900 to 18.3 million in 2009. The population explosion began with the great land boom of the 1920s as Florida became a destination for vacationers and a southern land speculator's paradise. People from throughout the Southeast migrated to Florida during this time, creating a larger southern culture in the central part of the state, and expanding the existing one in the northern region.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>By 1920, Florida had the highest rate of lynchings per capita,<sup id="cite_ref-davis_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davis-61">[61]</a></sup> although the overall total had declined. Violence of whites against black people continued into the post-World War II period, and there were lynchings and riots in several small towns in the early 1920s. Florida had the only recorded lynching in 1945, in October after the war's end, when a black man was killed after being falsely accused of assaulting a white girl.<sup id="cite_ref-davis_61-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davis-61">[61]</a></sup>
</p><p>In the 1920s, many developers invested in land in the southern part of the State in areas such as Miami, and Palm Beach attracting more people in the Southern States. When the Crash came in 1929, prices of houses plunged, but the sunshine remained. Hurt badly by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression</a> and the land bust, Florida, along with many other States, kept afloat with federal relief money under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>After World War II, the state would grow dramatically going from having a population of 2.7 million in 1950 to 16 million by 2000. It would go from being the 27th most populated state in 1940 to being the 4th by 2000<sup id="cite_ref-:2_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-68">[68]</a></sup> and 3rd by 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-fund_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fund-69">[69]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a></sup> Florida's strong population growth would follow other states in the southern and western United States. It would follow the same trend as many residents moving to the state were from the Midwest and Northeastern US. Many new residents in Florida were elderly and as a result the average age in Florida would increase from 28.8 in 1950 to 39.3 by 2000. Technological reasons behind Florida's growth included air conditioning and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/DDT" title="DDT">DDT</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-68">[68]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Race_relations">Race relations</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Race relations">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rosewood_massacre" title="Rosewood massacre">Rosewood massacre</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ocoee_massacre" title="Ocoee massacre">Ocoee massacre</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Perry_race_riot" class="mw-redirect" title="Perry race riot">Perry race riot</a></div>
<p>After World War I, there was a rise in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lynchings" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynchings">lynchings</a> and other racial violence directed by whites against black people in the state, as well as across the South. It was due in part from strains of rapid social and economic changes, as well as competition for jobs, and lingering resentment resulting from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Reconstruction_Era_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction Era of the United States">Reconstruction</a> after the Civil War, as well as tensions among both black and white populations created by the return of black veterans.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a></sup>
</p><p>Whites continued to resort to lynchings to keep dominance, and tensions rose. Florida led the South and the nation in lynchings per capita from 1900 to 1930.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a></sup>
</p><p>White mobs committed massacres, accompanied by wholesale destruction of black houses, churches, and schools, in the small communities of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ocoee,_Florida" title="Ocoee, Florida">Ocoee</a>, November 1920; <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Perry,_Florida" title="Perry, Florida">Perry</a> in December 1922; and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rosewood,_Florida" title="Rosewood, Florida">Rosewood</a> in January 1923. The governor appointed a special grand jury and special prosecuting attorney to investigate Rosewood and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Levy_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Levy County">Levy County</a>, but the jury did not find sufficient evidence to prosecute. Rosewood was never resettled.
</p><p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> had several active Klaverns in Florida in the 1920s, starting in Jacksonville in late 1922. Like elsewhere in the south, Klan members terrorized African Americans, Catholics, immigrants and anyone else proclaiming racial equality. They also intimidated voters at polling locations and were direct participants in politics. For example, in the June primaries of 1922, the Klan had winning candidates for several offices throughout <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Volusia_County,_Florida" title="Volusia County, Florida">Volusia County</a>. The three largest Klaverns in the state were in Jacksonville, Miami, and St. Petersburg.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a></sup>
</p><p>To escape segregation, lynchings, and civil rights suppression, 40,000 African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a> from 1910 to 1940. That was one-fifth of their population in 1900. They sought better lives, including decent-paying jobs, better education for their children, and the chance to vote and participate in political life. Many were recruited for jobs with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad" title="Pennsylvania Railroad">Pennsylvania Railroad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rosewood_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rosewood-76">[76]</a></sup>
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s" title="Florida land boom of the 1920s">Florida land boom of the 1920s</a></div>
<p>The 1920s were a prosperous time for much of the nation, including Florida. The state's new railroads opened up large areas to development, spurring the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s" title="Florida land boom of the 1920s">Florida land boom of the 1920s</a>. Investors of all kinds, many from outside Florida, raced to buy and sell rapidly appreciating land in newly <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Plat" title="Plat">platted</a> communities such as Miami and Palm Beach. Led by entrepreneurs <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carl_Fisher" class="mw-redirect" title="Carl Fisher">Carl Fisher</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/George_E._Merrick" title="George E. Merrick">George Merrick</a>, Miami was transformed by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Land_speculation" class="mw-redirect" title="Land speculation">land speculation</a> and ambitious building projects into an emerging metropolis. A growing awareness in the areas surrounding Florida, along with the Northeast about the attractive south Florida winter climate, along with local promotion of speculative investing, spurred the boom.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a></sup>
</p><p>A majority of the people who bought land in Florida hired intermediaries to accomplish the transactions. By 1924, the main issues in state elections were how to attract more industry and the need to build and maintain good roads for tourists.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a></sup> During the time frame, the population grew from less than one million in 1920, to 1,263,540 in 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 361">: 361 </span></sup>
</p><p>By 1925, the market ran out of buyers to pay the high prices, and soon the boom became a bust. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1926_Miami_Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="1926 Miami Hurricane">1926 Miami Hurricane</a>, which nearly destroyed the city further depressed the real estate market.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a></sup> In 1928 another hurricane struck Southern Florida. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane" title="1928 Okeechobee hurricane">1928 Okeechobee hurricane</a> made landfall near <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach</a>, severely damaging the local infrastructure. In townships near Lake Okeechobee, the storm breached a dike separating the water from land, creating a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Storm_surge" title="Storm surge">storm surge</a> that killed over 2,000 people and destroying the towns of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Belle_Glade,_Florida" title="Belle Glade, Florida">Belle Glade</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pahokee,_Florida" title="Pahokee, Florida">Pahokee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 378">: 378 </span></sup>
</p><p>Tourists continued to arrive in Florida by train. The introduction of the automobile resulted in an increased number traveling on sometimes macadamized, sometimes dirt roads. The destination was usually Miami or Miami Beach. Roadside attractions included orange shops and alligator wrestling.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a></sup> Tourism was confined to the winter months. Summers were uncomfortably hot for visitors.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Prohibition">Prohibition</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Prohibition">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition</a> had been popular in north Florida, but was opposed in the rest of the south, which became a haven for speakeasies and rum-runners in the 1920s. During 1928–32 a broad coalition of judges, lawyers, politicians, journalists, brewers, hoteliers, retailers, and ordinary Floridians organized to try to repeal the ban on alcohol. When the federal government legalized near beer and light wine in 1933, the wet coalition launched a successful campaign to legalize these beverages at the state level.<sup id="cite_ref-Guthrie_1995_23–39_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guthrie_1995_23–39-81">[81]</a></sup>
</p><p>Floridians subsequently joined in the national campaign to repeal the 18th Amendment, which succeeded in December 1933. The following November, state voters repealed Florida's constitutional ban on liquor and gave local governments the power to legalize or outlaw alcoholic beverages.<sup id="cite_ref-Guthrie_1995_23–39_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guthrie_1995_23–39-81">[81]</a></sup>
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<p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression</a> began with the Stock Market crash of 1929. By that time, the economy had already declined in much of Florida from the collapse three years earlier of the land boom.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 376">: 376 </span></sup> During the late 1920s and early 1930s Florida would face a variety of problems with some of them stemming from the collapse of the Florida Land Boom and the Great Depression. Two hurricanes with one occurring in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1926_Miami_hurricane" title="1926 Miami hurricane">1926</a> and another in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane" title="1928 Okeechobee hurricane">1928</a> would hurt the state further economically.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-82">[82]</a></sup> The state government would be in debt which was then a violation of Florida's Constitution and over 150 municipalities would also be in debt as they had defaulted on their municipal bonds<sup id="cite_ref-:0_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-83">[83]</a></sup> which had mainly been issued as a way to pay for infrastructure during the Florida land boom.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-82">[82]</a></sup> Many property owners often owed taxes to local governments which further worsened the situation. A separate issue would be with Florida's virgin timber crop being virtually cut down by the 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> (1933–40) a variety of projects would be built by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration" title="Works Progress Administration">Works Progress Administration</a> (WPA). There would be work camps for the young men of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps" title="Civilian Conservation Corps">Civilian Conservation Corps</a> (CCC).<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 386">: 386 </span></sup> Apart from the New Deal being implemented, Florida would see <a href="/enwiki/wiki/David_Sholtz" title="David Sholtz">David Sholtz</a> become elected as Governor in 1932. As governor, he would manage to implement social welfare programs while simultaneously expanding the amount of tax revenue received by the state government and getting it out of debt. He would also be strongly aligned with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and was a personal friend of his.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-83">[83]</a></sup> Toward the end of Sholtz's tenure his reputation among Floridians which was previously positive would decline as his ethics became questioned. As a result <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fred_P._Cone" title="Fred P. Cone">Fred P. Cone</a> would become elected as governor in 1936. While being governor he would be incredibly hands-off and had a fiscally conservative approach.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_82-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-82">[82]</a></sup>
</p><p>From 1930 to 1935, college students selected Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, and Panama City Beach as great places to take a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spring_break" title="Spring break">spring break</a> and party. The 1960s film <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Where_the_Boys_Are" title="Where the Boys Are">Where the Boys Are</a></i> increased attendance in Fort Lauderdale to 50,000 annually. When this figure increased to 250,000 in 1985, the city began to pass laws restricting student activities. As a result, students moved to Daytona Beach from 1980 to 1990s. The figure for Fort Lauderdale dropped to 20,000; 350,000 visited Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach passed laws constraining underage drinking. Students then began patronizing Panama City, where 500,000 visited in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a></sup>
</p><p>Florida legalized gambling in 1931 allowing a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Parimutuel_betting" title="Parimutuel betting">Parimutuel betting</a> establishment. By 2014, there were 30 such establishments, generating $200 million in state taxes and fees.<sup id="cite_ref-ft140311_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft140311-86">[86]</a></sup>
</p><p>Anticipating war, the Army and Navy decided to use the state as a primary training area. The Navy chose the coastal areas, the Army, the inland areas.<sup id="cite_ref-i1108_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i1108-87">[87]</a></sup>
</p><p>In 1940, the population was about 1.5 million. Average annual income was $308 ($5,957.35 in 2021 dollars).
<sup id="cite_ref-i1108_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i1108-87">[87]</a></sup>
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<p>Prior to the United States entering World War II, Florida was found in polling by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gallup,_Inc." title="Gallup, Inc.">Gallup</a> to be among the most supportive states for interventionism.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a></sup> In the years leading up to World War II, 100 ships were sunk off the coast of Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a></sup> More ships sank after the country entered the war.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> About 248,000 Floridians served in the war. Around 50,000 of these were African Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-Brotemarkle_5A_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brotemarkle_5A-90">[90]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the war, shipbuilding would make up two-thirds of all industrial growth seen in the state. Thousands of people would be hired by shipbuilding companies during the war to work in Pensacola, Panama City, Jacksonville and Tampa. There would be labor shortages during the war as many of those who worked at industrial jobs were now serving in the military. Local and migrant laborers who worked in the orchards and field would end up leaving for higher paying jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a></sup>
</p><p>The state became a major hub for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">United States Armed Forces</a>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola" title="Naval Air Station Pensacola">Naval Air Station Pensacola</a> was originally established as a naval station in 1826 and became the first American naval aviation facility in 1917. The entire nation mobilized for World War II and many bases, especially air bases, were established in Florida, to include:
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Whiting_Field" title="Naval Air Station Whiting Field">Naval Air Station Whiting Field</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Ellyson_Field" title="Naval Air Station Ellyson Field">Naval Air Station Ellyson Field</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tyndall_AFB" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyndall AFB">Tyndall Field</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dale_Mabry_Army_Airfield" title="Dale Mabry Army Airfield">Dale Mabry Army Airfield</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Jacksonville" title="Naval Air Station Jacksonville">Naval Air Station Jacksonville</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Station_Mayport" title="Naval Station Mayport">Naval Station Mayport</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Cecil_Field" title="Naval Air Station Cecil Field">Naval Air Station Cecil Field</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Camp_Blanding" title="Camp Blanding">Camp Blanding</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Daytona_Beach_International_Airport" title="Daytona Beach International Airport">Naval Air Station Daytona Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_DeLand" title="Naval Air Station DeLand">Naval Air Station DeLand</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Sanford" title="Naval Air Station Sanford">Naval Air Station Sanford</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orlando_Executive_Airport" title="Orlando Executive Airport">Orlando Army Air Base</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/McCoy_AFB" class="mw-redirect" title="McCoy AFB">Pinecastle Army Airfield</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kissimmee_Army_Airfield" title="Kissimmee Army Airfield">Kissimmee Army Airfield</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Patrick_Space_Force_Base" title="Patrick Space Force Base">Naval Air Station Banana River</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Melbourne" title="Naval Air Station Melbourne">Naval Air Station Melbourne</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lakeland_Army_Airfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Lakeland Army Airfield">Lakeland Army Airfield</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Fort_Lauderdale" title="Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale">Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Coast_Guard_Air_Station_Miami" title="Coast Guard Air Station Miami">Naval Air Station Miami</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Richmond" title="Naval Air Station Richmond">Naval Air Station Richmond</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Page_Field_Army_Airfield" title="Page Field Army Airfield">Page Field Army Airfield</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Key_West" title="Naval Air Station Key West">Naval Air Station Key West</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Truman_Annex" title="Truman Annex">Naval Station Key West</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Homestead_Air_Reserve_Base" title="Homestead Air Reserve Base">Homestead Army Air Field</a></li></ul>
<p>Numerous others were also established that exist today as military installations/facilities, civilian airports, or other facilities under different names.
</p><p>Present day <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Eglin_Air_Force_Base" title="Eglin Air Force Base">Eglin Air Force Base</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurlburt_Field" title="Hurlburt Field">Hurlburt Field</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/MacDill_Air_Force_Base" title="MacDill Air Force Base">MacDill Air Force Base</a> (now the home of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/U.S._Central_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Central Command">U.S. Central Command</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/U.S._Special_Operations_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Special Operations Command">U.S. Special Operations Command</a>) were also developed as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/U.S._Army_Air_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Air Forces">U.S. Army Air Forces</a> installations during this time. During the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, Florida's coastal access and proximity to Cuba encouraged the development of these and other military facilities. Since the end of the Cold War, the military has closed some facilities, including major bases such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/NAS_Sanford" class="mw-redirect" title="NAS Sanford">NAS Sanford</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/McCoy_AFB" class="mw-redirect" title="McCoy AFB">McCoy AFB</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/NAS_Cecil_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="NAS Cecil Field">NAS Cecil Field</a>, and NTC Orlando, and realigned others such as Homestead AFB being transferred to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Air_Force_Reserve_Command" title="Air Force Reserve Command">Air Force Reserve Command</a> and realigned as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Homestead_Air_Reserve_Base" title="Homestead Air Reserve Base">Homestead Air Reserve Base</a>, or <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Saufley_Field" title="Saufley Field">NAS Saufley Field</a> realigned as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Saufley_Field" title="Saufley Field">NETPDC Saufley Field</a>, but their presence is still significant in the state and local economies.
</p><p>Apart from military bases, Florida would also be home to 22 prisoner of war camps. Starting in May 1943, the Allied powers would send captured Nazi soldiers to the United States with about of 10,000 of them going to 22 camps in Florida. Many of these camps would be located in or near military bases.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a></sup>
</p><p>The population increased by 46% during the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-Brotemarkle_5A_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brotemarkle_5A-90">[90]</a></sup>
</p><p>Because of Cape Canaveral's relative closeness to the equator, compared to other potential locations, it was chosen in 1949 as a test site for the country's nascent missile program. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Patrick_Space_Force_Base" title="Patrick Space Force Base">Patrick Space Force Base</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Force_Station" title="Cape Canaveral Space Force Station">Cape Canaveral Space Force Station</a> launch site began to take shape as the 1950s progressed. By the early 1960s, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a> was in full swing. As programs were expanded and employees joined, the space program generated a huge boom in the communities around Cape Canaveral. This area is now collectively known as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Space_Coast" title="Space Coast">Space Coast</a> and features the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a>. It is also a major center of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Aerospace_engineering" title="Aerospace engineering">aerospace industry</a>. To date, all crewed orbital spaceflights launched by the United States, including those that carried the only persons to visit the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>, have been launched from Kennedy Space Center.
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<h3><span id="Post-World_War_II_growth.2C_changes_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Post-World_War_II_growth,_changes_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement">Post-World War II growth, changes and the Civil Rights Movement</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Post-World War II growth, changes and the Civil Rights Movement">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>Florida's population mix has changed. After World War II, Florida was transformed as the development of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Air_conditioning" title="Air conditioning">air conditioning</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Interstate_highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstate highway">Interstate highway</a> system encouraged migration by residents of the North and Midwest.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_68-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-68">[68]</a></sup>
</p><p>In 1950, Florida was ranked twentieth among the states in population; 50 years later it was ranked fourth,<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></sup> and 14 years later was number three.<sup id="cite_ref-fund_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fund-69">[69]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a></sup> Due to low tax rates and warm climate, Florida became the destination for many retirees from the Northeast, Midwest and Canada.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>Prior to development, Florida salt marshes were capable of producing large numbers of mosquitoes. The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Aedes_sollicitans" title="Aedes sollicitans">salt marsh mosquito</a> does not lay its eggs in standing water, preferring moist sand or mud instead. Biologists learned to control them by "source reduction", the process of removing the moist sand needed by the mosquitoes to breed. To achieve this goal, large sections of coastal marshes were either ditched or diked to remove the moist sand that the mosquitoes required to lay eggs on. Together with chemical controls, it yielded a qualified success.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a></sup>
</p><p>Dramatic changes would also be seen economically in Florida. Agricultural grew during the postwar years and even outpaced the growth of tourism in the state until 1965 when Walt Disney announced the creation of Walt Disney World. Citrus growers doubled their output, cattle ranching expanded in the Kissimmee Valley and farmers began to cultivate the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Everglades_Agricultural_Area" title="Everglades Agricultural Area">Everglades Agricultural Area</a> with sugar being the most prominent crop. Sugarcane cultivation would begin to grow significantly in that area after the United States placed an embargo on Cuban sugar in 1959<sup id="cite_ref-:3_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-97">[97]</a></sup> (Cuba was the main supplier of sugar to the United States)<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (March 2023)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and repealed the Sugar Act's limits on domestic production. Tourism grew in Florida from 3 million visitors to over 15 million by 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-97">[97]</a></sup>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Changes_in_demographics">Changes in demographics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Changes in demographics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
<p>In the early postwar period, the state's population had changed markedly by migration of new groups, as well as emigration of African Americans, 40,000 of whom moved north in earlier decades of the 20th century during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rosewood_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rosewood-76">[76]</a></sup> By 1960 the number of African Americans in Florida had increased to 880,186, but declined proportionally to 18% of the state's population.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This was a much smaller proportion than in 1900, when the census showed they comprised 44% of the state's population, while numbering 230,730 persons.<sup id="cite_ref-USCensusOffice1901_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensusOffice1901-99">[99]</a></sup> The median age would also end up increasing as the state became a popular destination for retirees; going from 28.8 in 1950 to 39.3 by 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_68-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-68">[68]</a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a> of 1959 resulted in a large wave of Cuban immigration into South Florida, which transformed Miami into a major center of commerce, finance and transportation for all of Latin America. Emigration from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, other Caribbean states, and Central and South America continues to the present day.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 476–477">: 476–477 </span></sup>
</p><p>The population of Asian-Americans increased in Florida during the postwar years, growing from 1,142 counted by the US Census Bureau in 1950 to 154,302 by 1990. During the 1970s and 1980s Asian-Americans would end up becoming the largest foreign-born group of people in Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></sup>
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<p>Like other states in the South, Florida had many African-American leaders who were active in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>. In the 1940s and '50s, a new generation started working on issues, emboldened by veterans who had fought during World War II and wanted to gain more civil rights. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Harry_T._Moore" title="Harry T. Moore">Harry T. Moore</a> built the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" class="mw-redirect" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP">NAACP</a>) in Florida, rapidly increasing its membership to 10,000. Because Florida's voter laws were not as restrictive as those of Georgia and Alabama, he had some success in registering black voters. In the 1940s he increased voter registration among black people from 5 to 31% of those age-eligible.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a></sup>
</p><p>But the state had white groups who resisted change, to the point of attacking and killing black people. In December 1951 whites <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Murder_of_Harry_and_Harriette_Moore" class="mw-redirect" title="Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore">bombed the house</a> of activists Harry Moore and his wife Harriette, who both died of injuries from the blast. Although their murders were not solved then, a state investigation in 2006 reported they had been killed by an independent unit of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>. Numerous bombings were directed against African Americans in 1951–1952 in Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2000_presidential_election_controversy">2000 presidential election controversy</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 2000 presidential election controversy">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>Florida became the battleground of the controversial <a href="/enwiki/wiki/2000_US_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 US presidential election">2000 US presidential election</a> which took place on November 7, 2000. The count of the popular votes was extremely close, triggering automatic recounts. These recounts triggered accusations of fraud and manipulation, and brought to light voting irregularities in the state.
</p><p>Subsequent recount efforts degenerated into arguments over mispunched ballots, "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hanging_chad" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanging chad">hanging chads</a>", and controversial decisions by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Secretary_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Secretary of State">Florida Secretary of State</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Katherine_Harris" title="Katherine Harris">Katherine Harris</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Supreme Court">Florida Supreme Court</a>. Ultimately, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> ruled in <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bush_v._Gore" title="Bush v. Gore">Bush v. Gore</a></i> to end all recounts, allowing Harris to certify the election results. The final official Florida count gave the victory to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> over <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a> by 537 votes, a 0.009% margin of difference. The process was extremely divisive, and led to calls for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_Florida" title="Electoral reform in Florida">electoral reform in Florida</a>. Florida has the strictest laws penalizing and disenfranchising felons and other criminals, even if they have served their sentences. Together with other penalties, it excluded many minorities who may have voted for the Democratic candidate.
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Long-term scientific attention has focused on the fragility of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Everglades" title="Everglades">Everglades</a>. In 2000 Congress authorized the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Comprehensive_Everglades_Restoration_Plan" title="Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan">Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan</a> (CERP) at $8 billion. The goals are to restore the health of the Everglades ecosystem and maximize the value to people of its land, water, and soil.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a></sup> </p><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg/200px-Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="131" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg/300px-Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg/400px-Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1832" data-file-height="1200" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Destruction_following_hurricane_andrew.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Destruction in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lakes_by_the_Bay,_Florida" title="Lakes by the Bay, Florida">Lakes by the Bay</a> near Miami following Hurricane Andrew</div></div></div>
<p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew" title="Hurricane Andrew">Hurricane Andrew</a> in August 1992 struck <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Homestead,_Florida" title="Homestead, Florida">Homestead</a>, just south of Miami, as a Category 5 hurricane, leaving forty people dead, 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed, more than a million people left without electricity, and damages of $20–30 billion. Much of South Florida's sensitive vegetation was severely damaged. The region had not seen a storm of such power in decades. Besides heavy property damage, the hurricane nearly destroyed the region's insurance industry.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a></sup>
</p><p>The western panhandle was damaged heavily in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1995_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="1995 Atlantic hurricane season">1995</a>, with hurricanes <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Allison_(1995)" title="Hurricane Allison (1995)">Allison</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Erin_(1995)" title="Hurricane Erin (1995)">Erin</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Opal" title="Hurricane Opal">Opal</a> hitting the area within the span of a few months. The storms increased in strength during the season, culminating with Opal's landfall as a Category 3 in October.
</p><p>Florida also suffered heavily during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/2004_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2004 Atlantic hurricane season">2004 Atlantic hurricane season</a>, when four major storms struck the state. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Charley" title="Hurricane Charley">Hurricane Charley</a> made landfall in Charlotte County area and cut northward through the peninsula, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Frances" title="Hurricane Frances">Hurricane Frances</a> struck the Atlantic coast and drenched most of central Florida with heavy rains, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan" title="Hurricane Ivan">Hurricane Ivan</a> caused heavy damage in the western Panhandle, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Jeanne" title="Hurricane Jeanne">Hurricane Jeanne</a> caused damage to the same area as Frances, including compounded <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Coastal_erosion" title="Coastal erosion">beach erosion</a>. Damage from all four storms was estimated to be at least $22 billion, with some estimates going as high as $40 billion. In 2005, South Florida was struck by Hurricanes <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Katrina</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma" title="Hurricane Wilma">Wilma</a>. The panhandle was struck by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Dennis" title="Hurricane Dennis">Hurricane Dennis</a>.
</p><p>In 2016, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Matthew" title="Hurricane Matthew">Hurricane Matthew</a> paralleled the east coast and caused an estimated $10 billion dollars in damage. In 2017, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a> made a catastrophic category 4 landfall in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Keys" title="Florida Keys">Florida Keys</a>, followed by a category 3 landfall in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Collier_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Collier County">Collier County</a>. Irma caused over $50 billion dollars in damage in Florida, making it the costliest in Floridian history, until being surpassed by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Ian" title="Hurricane Ian">Hurricane Ian</a> in 2022. In 2018, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Michael" title="Hurricane Michael">Hurricane Michael</a> hit the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Panhandle" title="Florida Panhandle">Florida Panhandle</a> as a Category 5, the first landfall at that intensity in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> since <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew" title="Hurricane Andrew">Hurricane Andrew</a> in 1992. It caused over $20 billion dollars in damage in Florida. In 2022, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Ian" title="Hurricane Ian">Hurricane Ian</a> made landfall in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lee_County,_Florida" title="Lee County, Florida">Lee County</a>, killing 146 people and causing over $113 billion dollars in damage, making it the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes" title="List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes">costliest hurricane</a> to ever hit Florida and the deadliest since the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="1935 Labor Day Hurricane">1935 Labor Day Hurricane</a>.
</p><p>Florida has historically been at risk from hurricanes and tropical storms. These have resulted in higher risks and property damage as the concentration of population and development has increased along Florida's coastal areas. Not only are more people and property at risk, but development has overtaken the natural system of wetlands and waterways, which used to absorb some of the storms' energy and excess waters.
</p><p><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a></sup>
</p><p>Environmental issues include preservation and restoration of the Everglades, which has moved slowly. There has been pressure by industry groups to drill for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Crude_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude oil">oil</a> in the eastern <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a> but so far, large-scale drilling off the coasts of Florida has been prevented. The federal government declared the state an agricultural disaster area because of 13 straight days of freezing weather during the growing season in January 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a></sup>
</p><p>Oranges have been grown and sold in Florida since 1872.<sup id="cite_ref-morton_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morton-109">[109]</a></sup> Production dropped 59% from the 2008–9 season to the 2016–7 season. The decline was mostly due to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Canker" title="Canker">canker</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease" title="Citrus greening disease">citrus greening disease</a>, and hurricane damage.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Fishing">Fishing</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Fishing">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>In 2009–2010, "there were hardly any fish off Florida...they are finding fish all over Florida" in 2016. The federal government believes this is due to federal restraints on fishing.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Infrastructure">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>Consistent with usage throughout the country, more than 51% of homes in Florida in 2015 use mobile phones or wireless only.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Tourism">Tourism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Tourism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:177px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Winter_in_Florida.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Winter_in_Florida.jpg/175px-Winter_in_Florida.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="136" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Winter_in_Florida.jpg/263px-Winter_in_Florida.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Winter_in_Florida.jpg/350px-Winter_in_Florida.jpg 2x" data-file-width="846" data-file-height="656" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Winter_in_Florida.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Tourists hunting in 1893</div></div></div>
<p>During the late 19th century, Florida became a popular tourist destination as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Henry_Flagler" title="Henry Flagler">Henry Flagler</a>'s railroads expanded into the area.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a></sup> In 1891, railroad magnate <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Henry_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Plant">Henry Plant</a> built the luxurious <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Tampa Bay Hotel">Tampa Bay Hotel</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida">Tampa</a>; the hotel was later adapted for use as the campus for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_Tampa" title="University of Tampa">University of Tampa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tebeau_50-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tebeau-50">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 269">: 269 </span></sup>
</p><p>Flagler built the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_East_Coast_Railway" title="Florida East Coast Railway">Florida East Coast Railway</a> from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a> to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Key_West" title="Key West">Key West</a>. Along the route he provided grand accommodations for passengers, including the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ponce_de_Leon_Hotel" title="Ponce de Leon Hotel">Ponce de Leon Hotel</a> in St. Augustine, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ormond_Hotel" title="Ormond Hotel">Ormond Hotel</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ormond_Beach,_Florida" title="Ormond Beach, Florida">Ormond Beach</a>, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royal_Poinciana_Hotel" title="Royal Poinciana Hotel">Royal Poinciana Hotel</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Breakers_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Breakers Hotel">Breakers Hotel</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach</a>, and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royal_Palm_Hotel_(Miami)" title="Royal Palm Hotel (Miami)">Royal Palm Hotel</a> in Miami.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a></sup>
</p><p>In February 1888, Florida had a special tourist: President <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a>, the first lady, and his party visited Florida for a couple of days. He visited the Subtropical Exposition in Jacksonville, where he made a speech supporting tourism to the state; he took a train to St. Augustine, meeting Henry Flagler; and a train to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Titusville,_Florida" title="Titusville, Florida">Titusville</a>, where he boarded a steamboat and visited Rockledge. On his return trip, he visited <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sanford,_Florida" title="Sanford, Florida">Sanford</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Winter_Park,_Florida" title="Winter Park, Florida">Winter Park</a>.
</p><p>Flagler's railroad connected cities on the east coast of Florida. This created more urbanization along that corridor. Development also followed the construction of Turnpikes I-95 in east Florida, and I-75 in west Florida. These routes aided tourism and urbanization. Northerners from the East Coast used I-95 and tended to settle along that route. People from the MidWest tended to use I-75, and settled along the west coast of Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-ft150628_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft150628-28">[28]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Theme_parks">Theme parks</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Theme parks">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:177px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Cinderella_Castle_@_Magic_Kingdom.jpg" class="image"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cinderella_Castle_%40_Magic_Kingdom.jpg/175px-Cinderella_Castle_%40_Magic_Kingdom.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="131" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cinderella_Castle_%40_Magic_Kingdom.jpg/263px-Cinderella_Castle_%40_Magic_Kingdom.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cinderella_Castle_%40_Magic_Kingdom.jpg/350px-Cinderella_Castle_%40_Magic_Kingdom.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="2134" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Cinderella_Castle_@_Magic_Kingdom.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Magic_Kingdom" title="Magic Kingdom">Magic Kingdom</a> at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Resort" class="mw-redirect" title="Walt Disney World Resort">Walt Disney World Resort</a></div></div></div>
<p>Florida's first theme parks were developed in the 1930s and included <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cypress_Gardens" title="Cypress Gardens">Cypress Gardens</a> (1936) near <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Winter_Haven,_Florida" title="Winter Haven, Florida">Winter Haven</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marineland_(Florida)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marineland (Florida)">Marineland</a> (1938) near St. Augustine.
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Disney_World">Disney World</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Disney World">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
<p>Disney selected Orlando over several other sites for an updated and expanded version of their Disneyland Park in California. In 1971, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Magic_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="The Magic Kingdom">the Magic Kingdom</a>, the first component of the resort, opened and became Florida's best-known attraction, attracting tens of millions of visitors a year. It stimulated the development of other attractions, as well as large tracts of housing and related businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando</a> area became an international resort and convention destination, featuring a wide variety of themed parks. Other area theme parks include <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Universal_Orlando_Resort" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Orlando Resort">Universal Orlando Resort</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/SeaWorld" title="SeaWorld">SeaWorld</a>.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Boating">Boating</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Boating">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>In 2017, 50,000 vessels were damaged by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a>. This resulted in about $500 million worth of damage, predominately in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Keys" title="Florida Keys">Florida Keys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-Chang-Rodríguez2006-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Chang-Rodríguez2006_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFChang-Rodríguez2006" class="citation book cs1">Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d3UGjXiSAJ0C&pg=PA47"><i>Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida Del Inca</i></a>. Bucknell University Press. p. 47. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8387-5651-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8387-5651-5"><bdi>978-0-8387-5651-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beyond+Books+and+Borders%3A+Garcilaso+de+la+Vega+and+La+Florida+Del+Inca&rft.pages=47&rft.pub=Bucknell+University+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-8387-5651-5&rft.aulast=Chang-Rodr%C3%ADguez&rft.aufirst=Raquel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dd3UGjXiSAJ0C%26pg%3DPA47&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Vega2010-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Vega2010_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFGarcilaso_de_la_Vega2010" class="citation book cs1">Garcilaso de la Vega (June 28, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o11AZeV4pwEC&pg=PA5"><i>The Florida of the Inca</i></a>. University of Texas Press. p. 5. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-292-78905-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-292-78905-0"><bdi>978-0-292-78905-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Florida+of+the+Inca&rft.pages=5&rft.pub=University+of+Texas+Press&rft.date=2010-06-28&rft.isbn=978-0-292-78905-0&rft.au=Garcilaso+de+la+Vega&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Do11AZeV4pwEC%26pg%3DPA5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Steigman2005-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Steigman2005_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFSteigman2005" class="citation book cs1">Steigman, Jonathan D. (September 25, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QTjoOz7WMiIC&pg=PA33"><i>La Florida Del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America</i></a>. University of Alabama Press. p. 33. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8173-5257-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8173-5257-8"><bdi>978-0-8173-5257-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=La+Florida+Del+Inca+and+the+Struggle+for+Social+Equality+in+Colonial+Spanish+America&rft.pages=33&rft.pub=University+of+Alabama+Press&rft.date=2005-09-25&rft.isbn=978-0-8173-5257-8&rft.aulast=Steigman&rft.aufirst=Jonathan+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DQTjoOz7WMiIC%26pg%3DPA33&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://proximityone.com/st0030.htm">"Demographic Composition and Trends"</a>. Proximity. n.d<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 18,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Demographic+Composition+and+Trends&rft.pub=Proximity&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fproximityone.com%2Fst0030.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Hine2013-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hine2013_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFHine2013" class="citation book cs1">Hine, Albert C. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XZm-MgEACAAJ&pg=PA30-31"><i>Geologic History of Florida: Major Events that Formed the Sunshine State</i></a>. University Press of Florida. pp. 30–31. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8130-4421-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8130-4421-7"><bdi>978-0-8130-4421-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Geologic+History+of+Florida%3A+Major+Events+that+Formed+the+Sunshine+State&rft.pages=30-31&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Florida&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-8130-4421-7&rft.aulast=Hine&rft.aufirst=Albert+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXZm-MgEACAAJ%26pg%3DPA30-31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFHughesVacherSanford2007" class="citation journal cs1">Hughes, Joseph D.; Vacher, H.L.; Sanford, Ward E. (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/35/7/663/129931/Three-dimensional-flow-in-the-Florida-platform">"Three-dimensional flow in the Florida platform: Theoretical analysis of Kohout convection at its type locality"</a>. <i>Geology</i>. <b>35</b> (7): 663–666. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007Geo....35..663H">2007Geo....35..663H</a>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1130%2FG23374A.1">10.1130/G23374A.1</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 11,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Geology&rft.atitle=Three-dimensional+flow+in+the+Florida+platform%3A+Theoretical+analysis+of+Kohout+convection+at+its+type+locality&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=7&rft.pages=663-666&rft.date=2007&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1130%2FG23374A.1&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2007Geo....35..663H&rft.aulast=Hughes&rft.aufirst=Joseph+D.&rft.au=Vacher%2C+H.L.&rft.au=Sanford%2C+Ward+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpubs.geoscienceworld.org%2Fgsa%2Fgeology%2Farticle%2F35%2F7%2F663%2F129931%2FThree-dimensional-flow-in-the-Florida-platform&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-purdy-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-purdy_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-purdy_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFPurdy2008" class="citation book cs1">Purdy, Barbara A. (2008). <i>Florida's People During the Last Ice Age</i>. University Press of Florida. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8130-3204-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8130-3204-7"><bdi>978-0-8130-3204-7</bdi></a>. <q>Purdy: 2, states that the evidence for the presence of humans in Florida by 14,000 years ago is "indisputable".</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Florida%27s+People+During+the+Last+Ice+Age&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Florida&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-8130-3204-7&rft.aulast=Purdy&rft.aufirst=Barbara+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-milanich98-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-milanich98_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-milanich98_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-milanich98_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFMilanich1998" class="citation book cs1">Milanich, Jerald T. (1998). <i>Florida's Indians From Ancient Time to the Present</i>. University Press of Florida. pp. 38–132. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0813015996" title="Special:BookSources/978-0813015996"><bdi>978-0813015996</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Florida%27s+Indians+From+Ancient+Time+to+the+Present&rft.pages=38-132&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Florida&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0813015996&rft.aulast=Milanich&rft.aufirst=Jerald+T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dos.myflorida.com/historical/archaeology/underwater/sites/drowned-prehistoric-sites/">"Drowned Prehistoric Sites"</a>. Florida Dept of State. n.d.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Drowned+Prehistoric+Sites&rft.pub=Florida+Dept+of+State&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdos.myflorida.com%2Fhistorical%2Farchaeology%2Funderwater%2Fsites%2Fdrowned-prehistoric-sites%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-MARRINAN2007-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MARRINAN2007_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFMarrinanNancy_Marie_White2007" class="citation journal cs1">Marrinan, Rochelle A.; Nancy Marie White (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130403084151/http://www.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org/pdf/fw1.pdf">"Modeling Fort Walton Culture in Northwest Florida"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Southeastern Archaeology</i>. <b>26</b> (2–Winter). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org/pdf/fw1.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on April 3, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southeastern+Archaeology&rft.atitle=Modeling+Fort+Walton+Culture+in+Northwest+Florida&rft.volume=26&rft.issue=2%E2%80%93Winter&rft.date=2007&rft.aulast=Marrinan&rft.aufirst=Rochelle+A.&rft.au=Nancy+Marie+White&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trailoffloridasindianheritage.org%2Fpdf%2Ffw1.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-WEINSTEIN2008-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WEINSTEIN2008_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFWeinstein,_Richard_A.Dumas,_Ashley_A.2008" class="citation journal cs1">Weinstein, Richard A.; Dumas, Ashley A. (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425141409/http://www.coastalenv.com/sarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf">"The spread of shell-tempered ceramics along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Southeastern Archaeology</i>. <b>27</b> (2). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.coastalenv.com/sarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on April 25, 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southeastern+Archaeology&rft.atitle=The+spread+of+shell-tempered+ceramics+along+the+northern+coast+of+the+Gulf+of+Mexico&rft.volume=27&rft.issue=2&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Weinstein%2C+Richard+A.&rft.au=Dumas%2C+Ashley+A.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coastalenv.com%2Fsarc-27-02-202-221-e.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20179–11-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20179–11_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2017">Smith 2017</a>, pp. 9–11.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFDenhamRoth2007" class="citation journal cs1">Denham, James M.; Roth, Randolph (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25594611">"Why Was Antebellum Florida Murderous? A Quantitative Analysis of Homicide in Florida, 1821–1861"</a>. <i>The Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>86</b> (2): 216–217. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25594611">25594611</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Why+Was+Antebellum+Florida+Murderous%3F+A+Quantitative+Analysis+of+Homicide+in+Florida%2C+1821%E2%80%931861&rft.volume=86&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=216-217&rft.date=2007&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F25594611%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Denham&rft.aufirst=James+M.&rft.au=Roth%2C+Randolph&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F25594611&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFWeitzSheppard2018" class="citation book cs1">Weitz, Seth A.; Sheppard, Jonathan C., eds. (2018). <i>A Forgotten Front: Florida during the Civil War Era</i>. Tuscaloosa, AL.: University Alabama Press. p. 11. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780817319823" title="Special:BookSources/9780817319823"><bdi>9780817319823</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Forgotten+Front%3A+Florida+during+the+Civil+War+Era&rft.place=Tuscaloosa%2C+AL.&rft.pages=11&rft.pub=University+Alabama+Press&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=9780817319823&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFSheppard2012" class="citation book cs1">Sheppard, Jonathan C. (2012). <i>By the noble daring of her sons : the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee</i>. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press. p. 28. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780817317072" title="Special:BookSources/9780817317072"><bdi>9780817317072</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=By+the+noble+daring+of+her+sons+%3A+the+Florida+Brigade+of+the+Army+of+Tennessee&rft.place=Tuscaloosa%2C+Ala.&rft.pages=28&rft.pub=University+of+Alabama+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=9780817317072&rft.aulast=Sheppard&rft.aufirst=Jonathan+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/cvl_war/cvl_war1.htm#:~:text=Florida%27s%20greatest%20contribution%20to%20the,supplies%20could%20get%20safely%20northward.">"Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>fcit.usf.edu</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 22,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=fcit.usf.edu&rft.atitle=Florida%27s+Role+in+the+Civil+War%3A+%22Supplier+of+the+Confederacy%22&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffcit.usf.edu%2Fflorida%2Flessons%2Fcvl_war%2Fcvl_war1.htm%23%3A~%3Atext%3DFlorida%2527s%2520greatest%2520contribution%2520to%2520the%2Csupplies%2520could%2520get%2520safely%2520northward.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFBurnett1988" class="citation book cs1">Burnett, Gene M. (1988). <i>Florida's past : people and events that shaped the state. Volume 2</i>. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press. p. 127. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780910923590" title="Special:BookSources/9780910923590"><bdi>9780910923590</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Florida%27s+past+%3A+people+and+events+that+shaped+the+state.+Volume+2&rft.place=Sarasota%2C+FL&rft.pages=127&rft.pub=Pineapple+Press&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=9780910923590&rft.aulast=Burnett&rft.aufirst=Gene+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-DuBois-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DuBois_58-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DuBois_58-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFDu_Bois1992" class="citation book cs1">Du Bois, W.E.B. (1992) [1935]. <i>Black Reconstruction in America: 1860–1880</i> (Reprint). The Free Press. pp. 513, 515.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Black+Reconstruction+in+America%3A+1860%E2%80%931880&rft.pages=513%2C+515&rft.pub=The+Free+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.aulast=Du+Bois&rft.aufirst=W.E.B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFCox1968" class="citation journal cs1">Cox, Merlin G. (January 1968). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22411">"Military Reconstruction in Florida"</a>. <i>The Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>46</b> (3): 232<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 8,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Military+Reconstruction+in+Florida&rft.volume=46&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=232&rft.date=1968-01&rft.aulast=Cox&rft.aufirst=Merlin+G.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpalmm.digital.flvc.org%2Fislandora%2Fobject%2Fucf%253A22411&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFKnetsch2011" class="citation book cs1">Knetsch, Joe (2011). <i>Florida in the Spanish-American War</i>. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 18–19. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781609490881" title="Special:BookSources/9781609490881"><bdi>9781609490881</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Florida+in+the+Spanish-American+War&rft.place=Charleston%2C+SC&rft.pages=18-19&rft.pub=The+History+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=9781609490881&rft.aulast=Knetsch&rft.aufirst=Joe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-davis-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-davis_61-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-davis_61-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-davis_61-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFDavis1990" class="citation journal cs1">Davis, Jack E. (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30146708">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Whitewash" in Florida: The Lynching of Jesse James Payne and Its Aftermath"</a>. <i>The Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>68</b> (3): 277–298. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30146708">30146708</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 2,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=%22Whitewash%22+in+Florida%3A+The+Lynching+of+Jesse+James+Payne+and+Its+Aftermath&rft.volume=68&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=277-298&rft.date=1990&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30146708%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Davis&rft.aufirst=Jack+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30146708&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFThomas1978" class="citation journal cs1">Thomas, Donna (October 1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25442">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Camp Hell:" Miami During the Spanish-American War"</a>. <i>The Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>57</b> (2): 20–22<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 17,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=%22Camp+Hell%3A%22+Miami+During+the+Spanish-American+War&rft.volume=57&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=20-22&rft.date=1978-10&rft.aulast=Thomas&rft.aufirst=Donna&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpalmm.digital.flvc.org%2Fislandora%2Fobject%2Fucf%253A25442&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-:2-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_68-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_68-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_68-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_68-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFMormino2002" class="citation journal cs1">Mormino, Gary (Summer 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147612">"Sunbelt Dreams and Altered States: A Social and Cultural History of Florida, 1950–2000"</a>. <i>The Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>81</b> (1): 3–21. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30147612">30147612</a> – via JSTOR.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Sunbelt+Dreams+and+Altered+States%3A+A+Social+and+Cultural+History+of+Florida%2C+1950%E2%80%932000&rft.ssn=summer&rft.volume=81&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=3-21&rft.date=2002&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30147612%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Mormino&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30147612&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-fund-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-fund_69-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-fund_69-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFFund2014" class="citation web cs1">Fund, John (December 23, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395312/florida-leaves-new-york-behind-its-rear-view-mirror-john-fund">"Florida Leaves New York Behind in Its Rear-View Mirror—National Review"</a>. <i>Nationalreview.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 23,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Nationalreview.com&rft.atitle=Florida+Leaves+New+York+Behind+in+Its+Rear-View+Mirror%E2%80%94National+Review&rft.date=2014-12-23&rft.aulast=Fund&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fcorner%2F395312%2Fflorida-leaves-new-york-behind-its-rear-view-mirror-john-fund&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFPramuk2014" class="citation web cs1">Pramuk, Jacob (December 23, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/23/florida-surpasses-ny-as-3rd-most-populous-state.html">"Move over, NY: This state now 3rd most populous"</a>. <i>Cnbc.com</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Cnbc.com&rft.atitle=Move+over%2C+NY%3A+This+state+now+3rd+most+populous&rft.date=2014-12-23&rft.aulast=Pramuk&rft.aufirst=Jacob&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2014%2F12%2F23%2Fflorida-surpasses-ny-as-3rd-most-populous-state.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFAkers2011" class="citation book cs1">Akers, Monte (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rQOs_jKyyZMC&pg=PA151-152"><i>Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community</i></a>. University of Texas Press. pp. 151–152. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0292726338" title="Special:BookSources/978-0292726338"><bdi>978-0292726338</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Flames+After+Midnight%3A+Murder%2C+Vengeance%2C+and+the+Desolation+of+a+Texas+Community&rft.pages=151-152&rft.pub=University+of+Texas+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0292726338&rft.aulast=Akers&rft.aufirst=Monte&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrQOs_jKyyZMC%26pg%3DPA151-152&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFBrown2005" class="citation book cs1">Brown, Lois (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=t910en1a7pkC"><i>Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Harlem Renaissance Writers</i></a>. Facts on File. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0816049677" title="Special:BookSources/978-0816049677"><bdi>978-0816049677</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+the+Harlem+Literary+Renaissance%3A+The+Essential+Guide+to+the+Lives+and+Works+of+the+Harlem+Renaissance+Writers&rft.pub=Facts+on+File&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0816049677&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Lois&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dt910en1a7pkC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFRabby1999" class="citation book cs1">Rabby, Glenda Alice (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zKw0ltL5VaQC"><i>The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida</i></a>. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. p. 3. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0820320519" title="Special:BookSources/978-0820320519"><bdi>978-0820320519</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Pain+and+the+Promise%3A+The+Struggle+for+Civil+Rights+in+Tallahassee%2C+Florida&rft.place=Athens%2C+GA&rft.pages=3&rft.pub=University+of+Georgia+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0820320519&rft.aulast=Rabby&rft.aufirst=Glenda+Alice&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzKw0ltL5VaQC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFHare2006" class="citation book cs1">Hare, Julianne (2006). <i>Historic Frenchtown. Heart and Heritage in Tallahassee, Columbia, S.C</i>. History Press. p. 68. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/1596291494" title="Special:BookSources/1596291494"><bdi>1596291494</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Historic+Frenchtown.+Heart+and+Heritage+in+Tallahassee%2C+Columbia%2C+S.C.&rft.pages=68&rft.pub=History+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1596291494&rft.aulast=Hare&rft.aufirst=Julianne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFChalmers1964" class="citation journal cs1">Chalmers, David (January 1964). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22396">"The Ku Klux Klan in the Sunshine State: The 1920's"</a>. <i>The Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>42</b> (3): 209–211<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 14,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=The+Ku+Klux+Klan+in+the+Sunshine+State%3A+The+1920%27s&rft.volume=42&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=209-211&rft.date=1964-01&rft.aulast=Chalmers&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpalmm.digital.flvc.org%2Fislandora%2Fobject%2Fucf%253A22396&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-rosewood-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rosewood_76-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rosewood_76-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080515152951/http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html">"DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE INCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED AT ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, IN JANUARY 1923"</a>. Florida State University. December 22, 1993. p. 5. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html">the original</a> on May 15, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 28,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=DOCUMENTED+HISTORY+OF+THE+INCIDENT+WHICH+OCCURRED+AT+ROSEWOOD%2C+FLORIDA%2C+IN+JANUARY+1923&rft.pages=5&rft.pub=Florida+State+University&rft.date=1993-12-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmailer.fsu.edu%2F~mjones%2Frosewood%2Frosewood.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFMcDonnell1973" class="citation journal cs1">McDonnell, Victoria H. (July 1973). "Rise of the 'Businessman's Politician': The 1924 Florida Gubernatorial Race". <i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>52</b> (1): 39–50. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30150977">30150977</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Rise+of+the+%27Businessman%27s+Politician%27%3A+The+1924+Florida+Gubernatorial+Race&rft.volume=52&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=39-50&rft.date=1973-07&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30150977%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=McDonnell&rft.aufirst=Victoria+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFGeorge1986" class="citation journal cs1">George, Paul S. (July 1986). "Brokers, Binders, and Builders: Greater Miami's Boom of the Mid-1920s". <i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>65</b> (1): 27–51. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30146317">30146317</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Florida+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Brokers%2C+Binders%2C+and+Builders%3A+Greater+Miami%27s+Boom+of+the+Mid-1920s&rft.volume=65&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=27-51&rft.date=1986-07&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30146317%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=George&rft.aufirst=Paul+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFStephens2020" class="citation news cs1">Stephens, Michael (December 22, 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2020/12/14/michael-stephens-memory-floridas-roadside-attractions/3885773001/">"In memory of our state's roadside attractions"</a>. <i>Florida Today</i>. Melbourne, Florida. pp. 11A<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 19,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Florida+Today&rft.atitle=In+memory+of+our+state%27s+roadside+attractions&rft.pages=11A&rft.date=2020-12-22&rft.aulast=Stephens&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gainesville.com%2Fstory%2Fopinion%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Fmichael-stephens-memory-floridas-roadside-attractions%2F3885773001%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Further_reading">Further reading</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1045330069"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile vcard"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><div class="adr"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Politics_of_Florida" title="Politics of Florida">Politics of Florida</a></div></th></tr><tr><th><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Seal_of_Florida.svg" class="image"><img alt="Seal of Florida.svg" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Seal_of_Florida.svg/140px-Seal_of_Florida.svg.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="140" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Seal_of_Florida.svg/210px-Seal_of_Florida.svg.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Seal_of_Florida.svg/280px-Seal_of_Florida.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a></th></tr><tr><th style="border-bottom: #aaa 1px solid"></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">Constitution</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Law_of_Florida" title="Law of Florida">law</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">United States Constitution</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida" title="Constitution of Florida">Florida Constitution</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Law_of_Florida" title="Law of Florida">Florida law</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Government_of_Florida" title="Government of Florida">Executive</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Florida" title="List of governors of Florida">Governor</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ron_DeSantis" title="Ron DeSantis">Ron DeSantis</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Florida" title="Lieutenant Governor of Florida">Lieutenant Governor</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jeanette_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeanette Núñez">Jeanette Núñez</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Cabinet" title="Florida Cabinet">Cabinet</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Attorney_General" title="Florida Attorney General">Attorney General</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ashley_Moody" title="Ashley Moody">Ashley Moody</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chief_Financial_Officer_of_Florida" title="Chief Financial Officer of Florida">Chief Financial Officer</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jimmy_Patronis" title="Jimmy Patronis">Jimmy Patronis</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Commissioner_of_Agriculture" title="Florida Commissioner of Agriculture">Commissioner of Agriculture</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wilton_Simpson" title="Wilton Simpson">Wilton Simpson</a> (R)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_Florida_state_agencies" title="List of Florida state agencies">State Agencies</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Legislature" title="Florida Legislature">Legislature</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Senate" title="Florida Senate">Senate</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/President_of_the_Florida_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the Florida Senate">President</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kathleen_Passidomo" title="Kathleen Passidomo">Kathleen Passidomo</a> (R)</li>
<li>President pro Tempore: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dennis_Baxley" title="Dennis Baxley">Dennis Baxley</a> (R)</li>
<li>Majority Leader: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ben_Albritton" title="Ben Albritton">Ben Albritton</a> (R)</li>
<li>Minority Leader: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lauren_Book" title="Lauren Book">Lauren Book</a> (D)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_House_of_Representatives" title="Florida House of Representatives">House</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Florida_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives">Speaker</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Paul_Renner_(politician)" title="Paul Renner (politician)">Paul Renner</a> (R)</li>
<li>Speaker pro Tempore: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chuck_Clemons" title="Chuck Clemons">Chuck Clemons</a> (R)</li>
<li>Majority Leader: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Michael_J._Grant" title="Michael J. Grant">Michael J. Grant</a> (R)</li>
<li>Minority Leader: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fentrice_Driskell" title="Fentrice Driskell">Fentrice Driskell</a> (D)</li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Judiciary_of_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Judiciary of Florida">Judiciary</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Florida" title="Supreme Court of Florida">Supreme Court</a>
<ul><li>Chief Justice: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carlos_G._Mu%C3%B1iz" title="Carlos G. Muñiz">Carlos G. Muñiz</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/District_court_of_appeal_(Florida)" class="mw-redirect" title="District court of appeal (Florida)">District courts of appeal</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Circuit_court_(Florida)" title="Circuit court (Florida)">Circuit courts</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Elections_in_Florida" title="Elections in Florida">Elections</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States" title="List of political parties in the United States">Political parties</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Democratic_Party" title="Florida Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Florida" title="Republican Party of Florida">Republican Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Constitution_Party_of_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution Party of Florida">Constitution Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ecology_Party_of_Florida" title="Ecology Party of Florida">Ecology Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Green_Party_of_Florida" title="Green Party of Florida">Green Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Independent_Party_of_Florida" title="Independent Party of Florida">Independent Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_Florida" title="Libertarian Party of Florida">Libertarian Party</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation" title="Party for Socialism and Liberation">Party for Socialism and Liberation</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Third_party_(United_States)" title="Third party (United States)">National minor parties</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Florida" title="Political party strength in Florida">Political party strength</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Florida" title="Administrative divisions of Florida">Administrative divisions</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Florida" title="List of counties in Florida">Counties</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Florida">Municipalities</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_Florida" title="United States congressional delegations from Florida">Congressional delegation</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Marco Rubio</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rick_Scott" title="Rick Scott">Rick Scott</a> (R)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Florida's 1st congressional district">1</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt Gaetz</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Florida's 2nd congressional district">2</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Neal_Dunn" title="Neal Dunn">Neal Dunn</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Florida's 3rd congressional district">3</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kat_Cammack" title="Kat Cammack">Kat Cammack</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 4th congressional district">4</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_Rutherford_(Florida_politician)" title="John Rutherford (Florida politician)">John Rutherford</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 5th congressional district">5</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Al_Lawson" title="Al Lawson">Al Lawson</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 6th congressional district">6</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Michael_Waltz" title="Michael Waltz">Michael Waltz</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_7th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 7th congressional district">7</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stephanie_Murphy" title="Stephanie Murphy">Stephanie Murphy</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 8th congressional district">8</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bill_Posey" title="Bill Posey">Bill Posey</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 9th congressional district">9</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Darren_Soto" title="Darren Soto">Darren Soto</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 10th congressional district">10</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Val_Demings" title="Val Demings">Val Demings</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 11th congressional district">11</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Daniel_Webster_(Florida_politician)" title="Daniel Webster (Florida politician)">Daniel Webster</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_12th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 12th congressional district">12</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gus_Bilirakis" title="Gus Bilirakis">Gus Bilirakis</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_13th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 13th congressional district">13</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charlie_Crist" title="Charlie Crist">Charlie Crist</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_14th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 14th congressional district">14</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kathy_Castor" title="Kathy Castor">Kathy Castor</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_15th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 15th congressional district">15</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Scott_Franklin_(politician)" title="Scott Franklin (politician)">Scott Franklin</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_16th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 16th congressional district">16</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Vern_Buchanan" title="Vern Buchanan">Vern Buchanan</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_17th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 17th congressional district">17</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Greg_Steube" title="Greg Steube">Greg Steube</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_18th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 18th congressional district">18</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brian_Mast" title="Brian Mast">Brian Mast</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_19th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 19th congressional district">19</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Byron_Donalds" title="Byron Donalds">Byron Donalds</a> (R)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_20th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 20th congressional district">20</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sheila_Cherfilus-McCormick" title="Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick">Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_21st_congressional_district" title="Florida's 21st congressional district">21</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lois_Frankel" title="Lois Frankel">Lois Frankel</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_22nd_congressional_district" title="Florida's 22nd congressional district">22</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ted_Deutch" title="Ted Deutch">Ted Deutch</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_23rd_congressional_district" title="Florida's 23rd congressional district">23</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz" title="Debbie Wasserman Schultz">Debbie Wasserman Schultz</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_24th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 24th congressional district">24</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_Wilson" title="Frederica Wilson">Frederica Wilson</a> (D)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida%27s_25th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 25th congressional district">25</a>: <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mario_D%C3%ADaz-Balart" title="Mario Díaz-Balart">Mario Díaz-Balart</a> (R)</li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Surveys">Surveys</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Surveys">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Colburn, David R. and deHaven-Smith, Lance. <i>Government in the Sunshine State: Florida since Statehood.</i> (1999). 168 pp.</li>
<li>Colburn, David R. and Landers, Jane L., eds. <i>The African American Heritage of Florida.</i> (1995). 392 pp.</li>
<li>Fernald, Edward A. and Purdum, Elizabeth, eds. <i>Atlas of Florida.</i> (1992). 280 pp.</li>
<li>Gannon, Michael. <i>The New History of Florida</i>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_Press_of_Florida" title="University Press of Florida">University Press of Florida</a>: 1996. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8130-1415-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-8130-1415-8">0-8130-1415-8</a>. 480pp</li>
<li>Gannon, Michael. <i>Florida: A Short History</i> (2003) 192 pages</li>
<li>George, Paul S., ed. <i>A Guide to the History of Florida.</i> (1989). 300 pp.</li>
<li>Manley, Walter W., II and Brown, Canter Jr., eds. <i>The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972</i> (2007)</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Indians_and_colonial">Indians and colonial</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Indians and colonial">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Brown, Robin C. <i>Florida's First People: 12,000 Years of Human History</i>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pineapple_Press" title="Pineapple Press">Pineapple Press</a>: 1994. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56164-032-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-56164-032-8">1-56164-032-8</a>.</li>
<li>Henderson, Ann L., and Gary R. Mormino. <i>Spanish Pathways in Florida: 1492–1992</i>. Pineapple Press: 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56164-004-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-56164-004-2">1-56164-004-2</a>.</li>
<li>Landers, Jane. <i>Black Society in Spanish Florida</i>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Press" title="University of Illinois Press">University of Illinois Press</a>: 1999. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-252-06753-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-252-06753-3">0-252-06753-3</a></li>
<li>Milanich, Jerald T. <i>Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present.</i> (1998). 224 pp.</li>
<li>Murphree, Daniel S. <i>Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783</i> (2007)</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="To_1900">To 1900</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: To 1900">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Baptist, Edward E. <i>Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War.</i> (2002) 408 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=9052">online review</a></li>
<li>Brown, Canter, Jr. <i>Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor.</i> (1997). 320 pp. on reconstruction</li>
<li>Brown, Canter Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. <i>For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864–1905.</i>(2004) 268ppl the other large black church <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=10833">online review</a></li>
<li>Hoffman, Paul E. <i>Florida's Frontiers.</i> (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier series.) (2002). 470 pp.</li>
<li>Klingman, Peter D. "Race and Faction in the Public Career of Florida's Josiah T. Walls." in Howard N. Rabinowitz, ed. <i>Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era</i> (1982). 59–78.</li>
<li>Klingman, Peter D. <i>Josiah Walls: Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction</i> (1976).</li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><cite id="CITEREFKnetsch2011" class="citation book cs1">Knetsch, Joe (2011). <i>Florida in the Spanish-American War</i>. Charleston, SC: The History Press. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781609490881" title="Special:BookSources/9781609490881"><bdi>9781609490881</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Florida+in+the+Spanish-American+War&rft.place=Charleston%2C+SC&rft.pub=The+History+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=9781609490881&rft.aulast=Knetsch&rft.aufirst=Joe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Florida" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li>Kokomoor, Kevin. "A Re-assessment of Seminoles, Africans, and Slavery on the Florida Frontier", <i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i>, Fall 2009, Vol. 88 Issue 2, pp 209–236</li>
<li>Nulty, William H. <i>Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee.</i> (1990).</li>
<li>Revels, Tracy J. <i>Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War.</i> (2004) 221 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=10988">online review</a></li>
<li>Richardson, Joe M. "Jonathan C. Gibbs: Florida's Only Negro Cabinet Member." <i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i> 42.4 (1964): 363–368. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30140048">in JSTOR</a></li>
<li>Rivers, Larry Eugene. <i>Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.</i> (2000). 369 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6308">online review</a></li>
<li>Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Brown, Canter, Jr. <i>Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865–1895.</i> (2001). 244 pp. history of the leading black denomination; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6811">online review</a></li>
<li>Sprague, John T. <i>The Florida War.</i> (1964), on Seminole war 597 pp.</li>
<li>Taylor, Robert A. <i>Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy.</i> (1995). 218 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=170">online review</a></li>
<li>Warren, Harris G. "Textbook Writers and the Florida" Purchase" Myth." <i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i> 41.4 (1963): 325–331 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30139962">online</a></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="20th_century">20th century</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: 20th century">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Akin, Edward N. <i>Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.</i> (1988). 305 pp.</li>
<li>Colburn, David R. and deHaven-Smith, Lance. <i>Florida's Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida.</i> (2002). 161 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6760">online review</a></li>
<li>Colburn, David R. <i>From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940.</i> (2007) 272pp <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=14680">online review</a></li>
<li>Colburn, David R. and Scher, Richard K. <i>Florida's Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century.</i> (1980). 342 pp.</li>
<li>Kleinberg, Eliot. <i>War in Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida.</i> (1999). 96pp.</li>
<li>Klingman, Peter D. <i>Neither Dies nor Surrenders: A History of the Republican Party in Florida, 1867–1970.</i> (1984). 233 pp.</li>
<li>Manley, Walter W., II and Canter Brown. <i>The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972.</i> (2006). 428 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22804">online review</a></li>
<li>Newton, Michael. <i>The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida.</i> (2001). 260 pp.</li>
<li>Peirce, Neal R. <i>The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States</i>. 1974</li>
<li>Rowe, Anne E. <i>The Idea of Florida in the American Literary Imagination.</i> (1986). 159 pp.</li>
<li>Stuart, John A., and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_F._Stack" title="John F. Stack">John F. Stack</a>, eds. <i>The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933–1940.</i> 263 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23065">online review</a></li>
<li>Vickers, Raymond B. <i>Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926.</i> (1994). 336 pp.</li>
<li>Wagy, Tom R. <i>Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida: Spokesman of the New South.</i> (1985). 264 pp. Democratic governor 1955–61</li></ul>
<h3><span id="Regions.2C_social_and_economic_history"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Regions,_social_and_economic_history">Regions, social and economic history</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Regions, social and economic history">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Carlson, Amanda B., and Robin Poynor, eds. <i>Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State</i> (University Press of Florida, 2014) 462 pp. heavily illustrated.</li>
<li>Drobney, Jeffrey. <i>Lumbermen and Log Sawyers: Life, Labor, and Culture in the North Florida Timber Industry, 1830–1930.</i> (1997). 241 pp.</li>
<li>Faherty, William Barnaby <i>Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State.</i> (2002) 224pp <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=8438">online review</a></li>
<li>Grant, Roger H. <i>Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad</i> (2007)</li>
<li>Hann, John H. <i>Apalachee: The Land between the Rivers.</i> (1988). 450 pp.</li>
<li>Hollander, Gail M. <i>Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida</i> (2007)</li>
<li>McNally, Michael J. <i>Catholic Parish Life on Florida's West Coast, 1860–1968.</i> (1996). 503 pp.</li>
<li>Middleton, Sallie. "Space Rush: Local Impact of Federal Aerospace Programs on Brevard and Surrounding Counties", <i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i>, Fall 2008, Vol. 87 Issue 2, pp 258–289</li>
<li>Otis, Katherine Ann. "Everything Old Is New Again: A Social and Cultural History of Life on the Retirement Frontier, 1950–2000" PhD dissertation; <i>Dissertation Abstracts International</i>, 2008, Vol. 69 Issue 4, p 1513–1513</li>
<li>Stronge, William B. <i>The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War</i> (2008)</li>
<li>Turner, Gregg M. <i>A Journey into Florida Railroad History</i> (2008)</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Environment">Environment</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Environment">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Barnes, Jay. <i>Florida's Hurricane History.</i> (1998). 330 pp.</li>
<li>Barnett, Cynthia. <i>Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.</i> (2007). 240 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23145">online review</a></li>
<li>Grunwald, Michael, "Swamped: Harry Truman, South Florida, and the Changing Political Geography of American Conservation", in <i>The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman</i>, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, pp 75–88. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009) . xxxvi, 145 pp. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-931112-93-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-931112-93-2">978-1-931112-93-2</a></li>
<li>Kendrick, Baynard. <i>A History of Florida Forests</i> (2 vol 2007)</li>
<li>McCally, David. <i>The Everglades: An Environmental History.</i> (1999). 215 pp.</li>
<li>Miller, James J. <i>An Environmental History of Northeast Florida.</i> (1998). 223 pp.</li>
<li>Ogden, Laura. "The Everglades Ecosystem and the Politics of Nature", <i>American Anthropologist</i>, March 2008, Vol. 110 Issue 1, pp 21–32</li>
<li>Poole, Leslie Kemp. <i>Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century</i> (University Press of Florida, 2015). x, 274 pp.</li>
<li>Williams, John M. and Duedall, Iver W. <i>Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871–2001.</i> (2002). 176 pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=6853">online review</a></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Primary sources">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li>Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, and James David Glunt, eds. <i>Florida Plantation Records: From the Papers of George Noble Jones.</i> (University Press of Florida, 2006). 596 pp. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1133582631"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8130-2976-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-8130-2976-7">0-8130-2976-7</a>; Originally published in 1927.</li>
<li>Romans, Bernard. <i>A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida.</i> ed. by Kathryn E. Holland Braund, (1999). 442 pp. online review travel in 1770s</li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=History_of_Florida&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/">Florida Bureau of Archeological Research</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.floridamemory.com/">Florida Memory</a> over 500,000 photographs and documents from the State Archives of Florida.</li>
<li>Boston Public Library, Map Center. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maps.bpl.org/explore/location/florida-6">Maps of Florida</a>, various dates.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10086">"Map of the Peninsula of Florida"</a> from ca. 1639 via the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/World_Digital_Library" title="World Digital Library">World Digital Library</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/">A History of Central Florida Podcast</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers">Florida Digital Newspaper Library</a> hosted at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/George_A._Smathers_Libraries" title="George A. Smathers Libraries">George A. Smathers Libraries</a> at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida">University of Florida</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html">P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Kingman_Reef" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Midway_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Navassa_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Palmyra_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Wake_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Wake Island">Wake Island</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/In_God_We_Trust" title="In God We Trust">Motto</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Timeline_of_Florida_history" title="Timeline of Florida history">Timeline</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_Florida" title="Spanish missions in Florida">Missions</a></li></ul></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seminole_Wars" title="Seminole Wars">Seminole Wars</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Florida in the American Civil War">Civil War</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_East_Coast_Railway" title="Florida East Coast Railway">Florida East Coast Railway</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s" title="Florida land boom of the 1920s">Florida land boom of the 1920s</a></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Walt_Disney_World" title="Walt Disney World">Disney World</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Beaches_of_Florida" title="Category:Beaches of Florida">Beaches</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_caves_in_the_United_States#Florida" title="List of caves in the United States">Caves</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Everglades" title="Everglades">Everglades</a> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Draining_and_development_of_the_Everglades" title="Draining and development of the Everglades">Drainage and development</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Keys" title="Florida Keys">Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Lakes_of_Florida" title="Category:Lakes of Florida">Lakes</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lake_Okeechobee" title="Lake Okeechobee">Lake Okeechobee</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Reef" title="Florida Reef">Reef</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Florida" title="List of rivers of Florida">Rivers</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sinkhole" title="Sinkhole">Sinkholes</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_major_springs_in_Florida" title="List of major springs in Florida">Springs</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_state_forests" title="Florida state forests">State forests</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_Florida_state_parks" title="List of Florida state parks">State parks</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Straits_of_Florida" title="Straits of Florida">Straits</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_swamps" title="Florida swamps">Swamps</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1926_Miami_hurricane" title="1926 Miami hurricane">Miami (1926)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane" title="1928 Okeechobee hurricane">Okeechobee (1928)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1929_Bahamas_hurricane" title="1929 Bahamas hurricane">Florida Keys (1929)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1933_Treasure_Coast_hurricane" title="1933 Treasure Coast hurricane">Treasure Coast (1933)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane" title="1935 Labor Day hurricane">Labor Day (1935)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1944_Cuba%E2%80%93Florida_hurricane" title="1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane">Dry Tortugas (1944)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1945_Homestead_hurricane" title="1945 Homestead hurricane">Homestead (1945)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1947_Fort_Lauderdale_hurricane" title="1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane">Fort Lauderdale (1947)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/September_1948_Florida_hurricane" title="September 1948 Florida hurricane">South Florida (1948)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/1949_Florida_hurricane" title="1949 Florida hurricane">1949 Florida hurricane</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Easy_(1950)" title="Hurricane Easy (1950)">Easy (1950)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_King" title="Hurricane King">King (1950)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Donna" title="Hurricane Donna">Donna (1960)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Betsy" title="Hurricane Betsy">Betsy (1965)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Eloise" title="Hurricane Eloise">Eloise (1975)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Elena" title="Hurricane Elena">Elena (1985)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew" title="Hurricane Andrew">Andrew (1992)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Opal" title="Hurricane Opal">Opal (1995)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Charley" title="Hurricane Charley">Charley (2004)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Frances" title="Hurricane Frances">Frances (2004)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan" title="Hurricane Ivan">Ivan (2004)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Jeanne" title="Hurricane Jeanne">Jeanne (2004)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Dennis" title="Hurricane Dennis">Dennis (2005)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma" title="Hurricane Wilma">Wilma (2005)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Matthew" title="Hurricane Matthew">Matthew (2016)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Irma (2017)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Michael" title="Hurricane Michael">Michael (2018)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian" title="Hurricane Dorian">Dorian (2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Sally" title="Hurricane Sally">Sally (2020)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hurricane_Ian" title="Hurricane Ian">Ian (2022)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:African-American_history_of_Florida" title="Category:African-American history of Florida">African-American</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Crime_in_Florida" title="Crime in Florida">Crime</a></li>
<li>Cuban-American culture
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuban_migration_to_Miami" title="Cuban migration to Miami">Miami</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Category:Cuban-American_culture_in_Tampa,_Florida" title="Category:Cuban-American culture in Tampa, Florida">Tampa</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Culture_of_Florida" title="Culture of Florida">Culture</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Demographics_of_Florida" title="Demographics of Florida">Demographics</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Economy_of_Florida" title="Economy of Florida">Economy</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Education_in_Florida" title="Education in Florida">Education</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_people_from_Florida" title="List of people from Florida">Floridians</a></li>
<li>Haitian-American culture
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Haitian_diaspora#Delray_Beach" title="Haitian diaspora">Delray Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Haitian_diaspora#Miami" title="Haitian diaspora">Miami</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Florida" title="Indigenous peoples of Florida">Indigenous peoples</a>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indigenous_people_of_the_Everglades_region" title="Indigenous people of the Everglades region">Everglades</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Politics_of_Florida" title="Politics of Florida">Politics</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sports_in_Florida" title="Sports in Florida">Sports</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Florida" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Big_Bend_(Florida)" title="Big Bend (Florida)">Big Bend</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Central_Florida" title="Central Florida">Central Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emerald_Coast" title="Emerald Coast">Emerald Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Everglades" title="Everglades">Everglades</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/First_Coast" title="First Coast">First Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Forgotten_Coast" title="Forgotten Coast">Forgotten Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miami_metropolitan_area" title="Miami metropolitan area">Gold Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Halifax_area" title="Halifax area">Halifax area</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Heartland" title="Florida Heartland">Heartland</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Keys" title="Florida Keys">Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nature_Coast" title="Nature Coast">Nature Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/North_Central_Florida" title="North Central Florida">North Central Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/North_Florida" title="North Florida">North Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Panhandle" title="Florida Panhandle">Panhandle</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/South_Florida" title="South Florida">South Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Southwest_Florida" title="Southwest Florida">Southwest Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Space_Coast" title="Space Coast">Space Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_Suncoast" title="Florida Suncoast">Suncoast</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Tampa Bay Area">Tampa Bay Area</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Treasure_Coast" title="Treasure Coast">Treasure Coast</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lee_County,_Florida" title="Lee County, Florida">Cape Coral–Fort Myers</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Crestview%E2%80%93Fort_Walton_Beach%E2%80%93Destin_metropolitan_area" title="Crestview–Fort Walton Beach–Destin metropolitan area">Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Deltona%E2%80%93Daytona_Beach%E2%80%93Ormond_Beach,_Florida_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" title="Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area">Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gainesville_metropolitan_area,_Florida" title="Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida">Gainesville</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Citrus_County,_Florida" title="Citrus County, Florida">Homosassa Springs</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacksonville_metropolitan_area,_Florida" title="Jacksonville metropolitan area, Florida">Jacksonville</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lakeland%E2%80%93Winter_Haven_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Lakeland–Winter Haven metropolitan area">Lakeland–Winter Haven</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miami_metropolitan_area" title="Miami metropolitan area">Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Collier_County,_Florida" title="Collier County, Florida">Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sarasota_metropolitan_area" title="Sarasota metropolitan area">North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marion_County,_Florida" title="Marion County, Florida">Ocala</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Greater_Orlando" title="Greater Orlando">Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brevard_County,_Florida" title="Brevard County, Florida">Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Panama_City_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Panama City metropolitan area">Panama City</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pensacola_metropolitan_area" title="Pensacola metropolitan area">Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Treasure_Coast" title="Treasure Coast">Port St. Lucie</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charlotte_County,_Florida" title="Charlotte County, Florida">Punta Gorda</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indian_River_County,_Florida" title="Indian River County, Florida">Sebastian-Vero Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Highlands_County,_Florida" title="Highlands County, Florida">Sebring</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tallahassee_metropolitan_area" title="Tallahassee metropolitan area">Tallahassee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa_Bay_area" title="Tampa Bay area">Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sumter_County,_Florida" title="Sumter County, Florida">The Villages</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Florida" title="List of municipalities in Florida">Largest cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida">Tampa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Petersburg,_Florida" title="St. Petersburg, Florida">St. Petersburg</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hialeah,_Florida" title="Hialeah, Florida">Hialeah</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tallahassee,_Florida" title="Tallahassee, Florida">Tallahassee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Port_St._Lucie,_Florida" title="Port St. Lucie, Florida">Port St. Lucie</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida" title="Fort Lauderdale, Florida">Fort Lauderdale</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="West Palm Beach, Florida">West Palm Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cape_Coral,_Florida" title="Cape Coral, Florida">Cape Coral</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pembroke_Pines,_Florida" title="Pembroke Pines, Florida">Pembroke Pines</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida" title="Hollywood, Florida">Hollywood</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miramar,_Florida" title="Miramar, Florida">Miramar</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Florida" title="List of counties in Florida">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alachua_County,_Florida" title="Alachua County, Florida">Alachua</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Baker_County,_Florida" title="Baker County, Florida">Baker</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bay_County,_Florida" title="Bay County, Florida">Bay</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bradford_County,_Florida" title="Bradford County, Florida">Bradford</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brevard_County,_Florida" title="Brevard County, Florida">Brevard</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Broward_County,_Florida" title="Broward County, Florida">Broward</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Calhoun_County,_Florida" title="Calhoun County, Florida">Calhoun</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charlotte_County,_Florida" title="Charlotte County, Florida">Charlotte</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Citrus_County,_Florida" title="Citrus County, Florida">Citrus</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Clay_County,_Florida" title="Clay County, Florida">Clay</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Collier_County,_Florida" title="Collier County, Florida">Collier</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Columbia_County,_Florida" title="Columbia County, Florida">Columbia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/DeSoto_County,_Florida" title="DeSoto County, Florida">DeSoto</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dixie_County,_Florida" title="Dixie County, Florida">Dixie</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Duval_County,_Florida" title="Duval County, Florida">Duval</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Escambia_County,_Florida" title="Escambia County, Florida">Escambia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Flagler_County,_Florida" title="Flagler County, Florida">Flagler</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Franklin_County,_Florida" title="Franklin County, Florida">Franklin</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gadsden_County,_Florida" title="Gadsden County, Florida">Gadsden</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gilchrist_County,_Florida" title="Gilchrist County, Florida">Gilchrist</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Glades_County,_Florida" title="Glades County, Florida">Glades</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gulf_County,_Florida" title="Gulf County, Florida">Gulf</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hamilton_County,_Florida" title="Hamilton County, Florida">Hamilton</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hardee_County,_Florida" title="Hardee County, Florida">Hardee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hendry_County,_Florida" title="Hendry County, Florida">Hendry</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hernando_County,_Florida" title="Hernando County, Florida">Hernando</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Highlands_County,_Florida" title="Highlands County, Florida">Highlands</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hillsborough_County,_Florida" title="Hillsborough County, Florida">Hillsborough</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Holmes_County,_Florida" title="Holmes County, Florida">Holmes</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indian_River_County,_Florida" title="Indian River County, Florida">Indian River</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jackson_County,_Florida" title="Jackson County, Florida">Jackson</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Florida" title="Jefferson County, Florida">Jefferson</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lafayette_County,_Florida" title="Lafayette County, Florida">Lafayette</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lake_County,_Florida" title="Lake County, Florida">Lake</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lee_County,_Florida" title="Lee County, Florida">Lee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Leon_County,_Florida" title="Leon County, Florida">Leon</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Levy_County,_Florida" title="Levy County, Florida">Levy</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Liberty_County,_Florida" title="Liberty County, Florida">Liberty</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Madison_County,_Florida" title="Madison County, Florida">Madison</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Manatee_County,_Florida" title="Manatee County, Florida">Manatee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marion_County,_Florida" title="Marion County, Florida">Marion</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Martin_County,_Florida" title="Martin County, Florida">Martin</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miami-Dade_County,_Florida" title="Miami-Dade County, Florida">Miami‑Dade</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Monroe_County,_Florida" title="Monroe County, Florida">Monroe</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mosquito_County,_Florida" title="Mosquito County, Florida">Mosquito</a> (former county)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nassau_County,_Florida" title="Nassau County, Florida">Nassau</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Okaloosa_County,_Florida" title="Okaloosa County, Florida">Okaloosa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Okeechobee_County,_Florida" title="Okeechobee County, Florida">Okeechobee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orange_County,_Florida" title="Orange County, Florida">Orange</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Osceola_County,_Florida" title="Osceola County, Florida">Osceola</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Palm_Beach_County,_Florida" title="Palm Beach County, Florida">Palm Beach</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pasco_County,_Florida" title="Pasco County, Florida">Pasco</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pinellas_County,_Florida" title="Pinellas County, Florida">Pinellas</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Polk_County,_Florida" title="Polk County, Florida">Polk</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Putnam_County,_Florida" title="Putnam County, Florida">Putnam</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Santa_Rosa_County,_Florida" title="Santa Rosa County, Florida">Santa Rosa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sarasota_County,_Florida" title="Sarasota County, Florida">Sarasota</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seminole_County,_Florida" title="Seminole County, Florida">Seminole</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Johns_County,_Florida" title="St. Johns County, Florida">St. Johns</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Lucie_County,_Florida" title="St. Lucie County, Florida">St. Lucie</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sumter_County,_Florida" title="Sumter County, Florida">Sumter</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Suwannee_County,_Florida" title="Suwannee County, Florida">Suwannee</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Taylor_County,_Florida" title="Taylor County, Florida">Taylor</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Union_County,_Florida" title="Union County, Florida">Union</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Volusia_County,_Florida" title="Volusia County, Florida">Volusia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wakulla_County,_Florida" title="Wakulla County, Florida">Wakulla</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Walton_County,_Florida" title="Walton County, Florida">Walton</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Washington_County,_Florida" title="Washington County, Florida">Washington</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Spain" title="Enlightenment in Spain">Bourbons</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bourbon_Reforms" title="Bourbon Reforms">Bourbon Reforms</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear" title="War of Jenkins' Ear">War of Jenkins' Ear</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Treaty_of_Madrid_(13_January_1750)" title="Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750)">Treaty of Madrid (1750)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nootka_Convention" title="Nootka Convention">Nootka Convention</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Napoleonic invasion</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso" title="Third Treaty of San Ildefonso">Third Treaty of San Ildefonso</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">Independence of Spanish continental Americas</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty" title="Adams–Onís Treaty">Adams–Onís Treaty</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1812" title="Spanish Constitution of 1812">Liberal constitution</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carlist_Wars" title="Carlist Wars">Carlist Wars</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/German%E2%80%93Spanish_Treaty_(1899)" title="German–Spanish Treaty (1899)">German–Spanish Treaty (1899)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Morocco#Independent_Morocco_(since_1956)" title="History of Morocco">Independence of Morocco</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Guinea" title="Spanish Guinea">Independence of Equatorial Guinea</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Western_Sahara_conflict" title="Western Sahara conflict">Western Sahara conflict</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Territories" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Territories</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Europe" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Europe</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li>
<li>Kingdoms of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples#Aragonese_dynasty" title="Kingdom of Naples">Naples</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily#The_insular_kingdom_of_Sicily_under_the_Crown_of_Aragon_and_Spain" title="Kingdom of Sicily">Sicily</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sardinia#Aragonese_period" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Duchy_of_Milan" title="Duchy of Milan">Milan</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor">Union with Holy Roman Empire</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, northernmost France</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Franche-Comt%C3%A9" title="Franche-Comté">Franche-Comté</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Northern_Catalonia" title="Northern Catalonia">Pyrénées-Orientales</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Iberian_Union" title="Iberian Union">Union with Portugal</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Asia" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Asia</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_the_Philippines" title="Captaincy General of the Philippines">Philippines</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_East_Indies" title="Spanish East Indies">Pacific Islands</a> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Mariana</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Caroline_Islands" title="Caroline Islands">Caroline</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Micronesia</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Formosa" title="Spanish Formosa">Northern Taiwan</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tidore" title="Tidore">Tidore</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="North_America" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">North America</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> (Western United States, Mexico, Central America, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_West_Indies" title="Spanish West Indies">Spanish Caribbean</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Spanish Louisiana</a> (Central United States)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest" title="Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest">Coastal Alaska</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Central_America" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Central America</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago#Spanish_period" title="History of Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Colony_of_Santiago" title="Colony of Santiago">Jamaica</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Haiti#Spanish_history_(1492–1625)" title="History of Haiti">Haiti</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Aruba#History" title="Aruba">Aruba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao#History" title="Curaçao">Curazao</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bonaire#History" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_Belize_(1506%E2%80%931862)" title="History of Belize (1506–1862)">Belize</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="South_America" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">South America</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Venezuela, part of Guyana</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">New Granada</a> (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, a northernmost portion of Brazilian Amazon)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Peru</a> (Peru, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Acre_(state)" title="Acre (state)">Acre</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a> (Argentina, Paraguay, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Charcas" title="Real Audiencia of Charcas">Charcas</a> (Bolivia), <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Banda_Oriental" title="Banda Oriental">Banda Oriental</a> (Uruguay), <a href="/enwiki/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands" title="History of the Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Chile" title="Captaincy General of Chile">Chile</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Africa" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Africa</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Guinea" title="Spanish Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li>
<li>Northern Africa (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Sahara" title="Spanish Sahara">Western Sahara</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_protectorate_in_Morocco" title="Spanish protectorate in Morocco">Spanish Morocco</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Tripoli" title="Spanish Tripoli">Tripoli</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tunis#Spanish_occupation_and_Ottoman_control" title="Tunis">Tunis</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_of_Algiers" title="Peñón of Algiers">Peñón of Algiers</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Oran#Spanish_period_(1509–1708,_1732–1792)" title="Oran">Oran</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/B%C3%A9ja%C3%AFa#Muslim_and_feudal_rulers" title="Béjaïa">Béjaïa</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ifni" title="Ifni">Ifni</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cape_Juby" title="Cape Juby">Cape Juby</a>)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Antarctica" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Antarctica</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terra_Australis,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Terra Australis, Spain">Terra Australis</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Administration" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Administration</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Archivo_de_Indias" class="mw-redirect" title="Archivo de Indias">Archivo de Indias</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Council_of_the_Indies" title="Council of the Indies">Council of the Indies</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" title="Cabildo (council)">Cabildo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Exequatur" title="Exequatur">Exequatur</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Laws_of_the_Indies" title="Laws of the Indies">Laws of the Indies</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">Papal bull</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royal_Decree_of_Graces_of_1815" title="Royal Decree of Graces of 1815">Royal Decree of Graces</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Trial_of_residence" title="Trial of residence">Trial of residence</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/School_of_Salamanca" title="School of Salamanca">School of Salamanca</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Administrative_subdivisions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Administrative subdivisions</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroy#In_the_Americas" title="Viceroy">Viceroyalties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Columbian_Viceroyalty" title="Columbian Viceroyalty">Columbian</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">New Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">New Granada</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Perú</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincies_of_the_Spanish_Empire" title="Captaincies of the Spanish Empire">Captaincies General</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Chile" title="Captaincy General of Chile">Chile</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Cuba" title="Captaincy General of Cuba">Cuba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Guatemala" title="Captaincy General of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_the_Philippines" title="Captaincy General of the Philippines">Philippines</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Provincias_Internas" title="Provincias Internas">Provincias Internas</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Captaincy General of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Captaincy General of Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Captaincy General of Yucatán">Yucatán</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Spanish_Empire" title="Governorates of the Spanish Empire">Governorates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Castilla_de_Oro" title="Castilla de Oro">Castilla de Oro</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_Cuba" title="Governorate of Cuba">Cuba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">La Florida</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">La Luisiana</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Andalusia_(1501%E2%80%931513)" title="Governorate of New Andalusia (1501–1513)">New Andalusia (1501–1513)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Andalusia" title="Governorate of New Andalusia">New Andalusia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Castile" title="Governorate of New Castile">New Castile</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Navarre" title="New Navarre">New Navarre</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_New_Toledo" title="Governorate of New Toledo">New Toledo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_Paraguay" title="Governorate of Paraguay">Paraguay</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Governorate of the Río de la Plata">Río de la Plata</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Governorate_of_Terra_Australis" title="Governorate of Terra Australis">Terra Australis</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia" title="Real Audiencia">Audiencias</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Granada" title="New Kingdom of Granada">Bogotá</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Buenos_Aires" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Audiencia of Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Caracas</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Charcas" title="Real Audiencia of Charcas">Charcas</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Concepci%C3%B3n" title="Real Audiencia of Concepción">Concepción</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Cusco" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Audiencia of Cusco">Cusco</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Guadalajara" title="Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara">Guadalajara</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Guatemala" title="Real Audiencia of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Lima" title="Real Audiencia of Lima">Lima</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Manila" title="Real Audiencia of Manila">Manila</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Audiencia of Mexico">Mexico</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Panama" title="Real Audiencia of Panama">Panamá</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Quito" title="Real Audiencia of Quito">Quito</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Santiago" title="Real Audiencia of Santiago">Santiago</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Real_Audiencia_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Economy" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Economy</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Currency_of_Spanish_America" title="Currency of Spanish America">Currencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar">Dollar (Peso)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_colonial_real" title="Spanish colonial real">Real</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Maraved%C3%AD" title="Maravedí">Maravedí</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_escudo" title="Spanish escudo">Escudo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Columnarios" title="Columnarios">Columnario</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Doubloon" title="Doubloon">Doubloon</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Trade</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Manila_galleon" title="Manila galleon">Manila galleon</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_treasure_fleet" title="Spanish treasure fleet">Spanish treasure fleet</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Casa_de_Contrataci%C3%B3n" title="Casa de Contratación">Casa de Contratación</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Road" title="Spanish Road">Spanish Road</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Guipuzcoan_Company_of_Caracas" title="Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas">Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barcelona_Trading_Company" title="Barcelona Trading Company">Barcelona Trading Company</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Consulate_of_the_Sea" title="Consulate of the Sea">Consulate of the Sea</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Camino_Real_de_Tierra_Adentro" title="Camino Real de Tierra Adentro">Camino Real de Tierra Adentro</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Commerce_Consulate_of_Buenos_Aires" title="Commerce Consulate of Buenos Aires">Commerce Consulate of Buenos Aires</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div id="Military" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Military</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Armies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tercio" title="Tercio">Tercio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Army_of_Flanders" title="Army of Flanders">Army of Flanders</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Free_Company_of_Volunteers_of_Catalonia" title="Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia">Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indian_auxiliaries" title="Indian auxiliaries">Indian auxiliaries</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_line_of_Spain" title="List of ships of the line of Spain">Ships of the line</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Royalist_(Spanish_American_independence)" title="Royalist (Spanish American independence)">Royalists</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Legion" title="Spanish Legion">Legión</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Strategists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fernando_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_3rd_Duke_of_Alba" title="Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba">Duke of Alba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Antonio_de_Leyva,_Duke_of_Terranova" title="Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova">Antonio de Leyva</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_de_Goiti" title="Martín de Goiti">Martín de Goiti</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alfonso_d%27Avalos" title="Alfonso d'Avalos">Alfonso d'Avalos</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_de_Toledo_Osorio,_4th_Marquis_of_Villafranca" class="mw-redirect" title="García de Toledo Osorio, 4th Marquis of Villafranca">García de Toledo Osorio</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emmanuel_Philibert,_Duke_of_Savoy" title="Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy">Duke of Savoy</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Baz%C3%A1n_the_Elder" title="Álvaro de Bazán the Elder">Álvaro de Bazán the Elder</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_of_Austria" title="John of Austria">John of Austria</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charles_Bonaventure_de_Longueval,_Count_of_Bucquoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy">Charles Bonaventure de Longueval</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pedro_de_Zubiaur" title="Pedro de Zubiaur">Pedro de Zubiaur</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ambrogio_Spinola,_1st_Marquis_of_the_Balbases" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases">Ambrosio Spinola</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Blas_de_Lezo" title="Blas de Lezo">Blas de Lezo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bernardo_de_G%C3%A1lvez" title="Bernardo de Gálvez">Bernardo de Gálvez</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Mariners</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pinz%C3%B3n_brothers" title="Pinzón brothers">Pinzón brothers</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano" title="Juan Sebastián Elcano">Juan Sebastián Elcano</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_de_la_Cosa" title="Juan de la Cosa">Juan de la Cosa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Miguel_L%C3%B3pez_de_Legazpi" title="Miguel López de Legazpi">Miguel López de Legazpi</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_de_Ocampo" title="Sebastián de Ocampo">Sebastián de Ocampo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alonso_de_Ojeda" title="Alonso de Ojeda">Alonso de Ojeda</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa" title="Vasco Núñez de Balboa">Vasco Núñez de Balboa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar" title="Alonso de Salazar">Alonso de Salazar</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_de_Urdaneta" title="Andrés de Urdaneta">Andrés de Urdaneta</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Antonio_de_Ulloa" title="Antonio de Ulloa">Antonio de Ulloa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ruy_L%C3%B3pez_de_Villalobos" title="Ruy López de Villalobos">Ruy López de Villalobos</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Diego_Columbus" title="Diego Columbus">Diego Columbus</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alonso_de_Ercilla" title="Alonso de Ercilla">Alonso de Ercilla</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando" title="Nicolás de Ovando">Nicolás de Ovando</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_de_Ayala" title="Juan de Ayala">Juan de Ayala</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Vizca%C3%ADno" title="Sebastián Vizcaíno">Sebastián Vizcaíno</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(explorer)" title="Juan Fernández (explorer)">Juan Fernández</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Luis_Fajardo_y_Ru%C3%ADz_de_Avenda%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Luis Fajardo y Ruíz de Avendaño">Luis Fajardo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Felipe_Gonz%C3%A1lez_de_Ahedo" title="Felipe González de Ahedo">Felipe González de Ahedo</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">Conquistadors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada" title="Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada">Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_P%C3%A9rez_de_Quesada" title="Hernán Pérez de Quesada">Hernán Pérez de Quesada</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Francisco_V%C3%A1zquez_de_Coronado" title="Francisco Vázquez de Coronado">Francisco Vázquez de Coronado</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez_de_Cu%C3%A9llar" title="Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar">Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pedro_de_Valdivia" title="Pedro de Valdivia">Pedro de Valdivia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gaspar_de_Portol%C3%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaspar de Portolà">Gaspar de Portolà</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pere_Fages_i_Beleta" class="mw-redirect" title="Pere Fages i Beleta">Pere Fages i Beleta</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Joan_Orp%C3%AD" title="Joan Orpí">Joan Orpí</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pedro_de_Alvarado" title="Pedro de Alvarado">Pedro de Alvarado</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_de_Urs%C3%BAa" title="Martín de Ursúa">Martín de Ursúa</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Diego_de_Almagro" title="Diego de Almagro">Diego de Almagro</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_Narv%C3%A1ez" title="Pánfilo de Narváez">Pánfilo de Narváez</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Diego_de_Mazariegos" title="Diego de Mazariegos">Diego de Mazariegos</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimo_Luis_de_Cabrera" title="Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera">Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pere_d%27Albern%C3%AD_i_Teixidor" class="mw-redirect" title="Pere d'Alberní i Teixidor">Pere d'Alberní i Teixidor</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_L%C3%B3pez_de_C%C3%A1rdenas" title="García López de Cárdenas">García López de Cárdenas</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: nowrap; text-align: right;">Notable battles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: white; text-align: left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Old World</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Won</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros" title="Revolt of the Comuneros">Comuneros</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Bicocca" title="Battle of Bicocca">Bicocca</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)" title="Sack of Rome (1527)">Rome (1527)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Landriano" title="Battle of Landriano">Landriano</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Pavia" title="Battle of Pavia">Pavia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conquest_of_Tunis_(1535)" title="Conquest of Tunis (1535)">Tunis</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_M%C3%BChlberg" title="Battle of Mühlberg">Mühlberg</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_St._Quentin_(1557)" title="Battle of St. Quentin (1557)">St. Quentin</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Gravelines_(1558)" title="Battle of Gravelines (1558)">Gravelines</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta" title="Great Siege of Malta">Malta</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" title="Battle of Lepanto">Lepanto</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fall_of_Antwerp" title="Fall of Antwerp">Antwerp</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Ponta_Delgada" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Ponta Delgada">Azores</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Mons_(1572)" title="Siege of Mons (1572)">Mons</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Gembloux_(1578)" title="Battle of Gembloux (1578)">Gembloux</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Ostend" title="Siege of Ostend">Ostend</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/English_Armada" title="English Armada">English Armada</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Celidonia" title="Battle of Cape Celidonia">Cape Celidonia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_White_Mountain" title="Battle of White Mountain">White Mountain</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Breda_(1624)" title="Siege of Breda (1624)">Breda</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%B6rdlingen_(1634)" title="Battle of Nördlingen (1634)">Nördlingen</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Valenciennes_(1656)" title="Battle of Valenciennes (1656)">Valenciennes</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sieges_of_Ceuta_(1694%E2%80%931727)" title="Sieges of Ceuta (1694–1727)">Ceuta</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Bitonto" title="Battle of Bitonto">Bitonto</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Bail%C3%A9n" title="Battle of Bailén">Bailén</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Vitoria" title="Battle of Vitoria">Vitoria</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_T%C3%A9touan" title="Battle of Tétouan">Tetouan</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alhucemas_landing" title="Alhucemas landing">Alhucemas</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lost</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Capo_d%27Orso" title="Battle of Capo d'Orso">Capo d'Orso</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna_(1529)" title="Siege of Vienna (1529)">Vienna (1529)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Preveza" title="Battle of Preveza">Preveza</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Castelnuovo" title="Siege of Castelnuovo">Siege of Castelnuovo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Algiers_expedition_(1541)" title="Algiers expedition (1541)">Algiers</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Ceresole" title="Battle of Ceresole">Ceresole</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ottoman_invasion_of_the_Balearic_Islands_(1558)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman invasion of the Balearic Islands (1558)">Balearic Islands (1558)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Djerba" title="Battle of Djerba">Djerba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conquest_of_Tunis_(1574)" title="Conquest of Tunis (1574)">Tunis</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Leiden" title="Siege of Leiden">Leiden</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Rocroi" title="Battle of Rocroi">Rocroi</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_the_Downs" title="Battle of the Downs">Downs</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Montes_Claros" title="Battle of Montes Claros">Montes Claros</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Passaro" title="Battle of Cape Passaro">Passaro</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay" title="Battle of Manila Bay">Manila Bay</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar" title="Battle of Trafalgar">Trafalgar</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Somosierra" title="Battle of Somosierra">Somosierra</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Annual" title="Battle of Annual">Annual</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan" title="Battle of Mactan">Mactan</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New World</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Won</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fall_of_Tenochtitlan" title="Fall of Tenochtitlan">Tenochtitlan</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca" title="Battle of Cajamarca">Cajamarca</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Cusco" title="Siege of Cusco">Cusco</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Muisca" title="Spanish conquest of the Muisca">Bogotá savanna</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Penco" title="Battle of Penco">Penco</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Mataquito" title="Battle of Mataquito">Mataquito</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Guadalupe_Island_(1595)" title="Battle of Guadalupe Island (1595)">Guadalupe Island</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Capture_of_Recife_(1595)" title="Capture of Recife (1595)">Recife</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_(1595)" title="Battle of San Juan (1595)">San Juan (1595)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Recapture_of_Bahia" title="Recapture of Bahia">Bahia</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Colonia_del_Sacramento" title="Siege of Colonia del Sacramento">Colonia del Sacramento</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros_(Paraguay)" title="Revolt of the Comuneros (Paraguay)">Comuneros (Paraguay)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias" title="Battle of Cartagena de Indias">Cartagena de Indias</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuerno_Verde" title="Cuerno Verde">Cuerno Verde</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rebellion_of_T%C3%BApac_Amaru_II" title="Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II">Túpac Amaru II</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Katari" title="Túpac Katari">Túpac Katari</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Siege_of_Pensacola" title="Siege of Pensacola">Pensacola</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Newfoundland_expedition" title="Newfoundland expedition">Newfoundland</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_(1797)" title="Battle of San Juan (1797)">San Juan (1797)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lost</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/La_Noche_Triste" title="La Noche Triste">La Noche Triste</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Iguape_War" title="Iguape War">Iguape</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Tucapel" title="Battle of Tucapel">Tucapel</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Raleigh%27s_El_Dorado_Expedition" class="mw-redirect" title="Raleigh's El Dorado Expedition">Guiana</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Curalaba" title="Battle of Curalaba">Curalaba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros_(New_Granada)" title="Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)">Comuneros (New Granada)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Invasion_of_Trinidad_(1797)" title="Invasion of Trinidad (1797)">Trinidad (1797)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Chacabuco" title="Battle of Chacabuco">Chacabuco</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Boyac%C3%A1" title="Battle of Boyacá">Boyacá</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Carabobo" title="Battle of Carabobo">Carabobo</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Pichincha" title="Battle of Pichincha">Pichincha</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Ayacucho" title="Battle of Ayacucho">Ayacucho</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Capture_of_Guam" title="Capture of Guam">Guam</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Battle_of_Santiago_de_Cuba" title="Battle of Santiago de Cuba">Santiago de Cuba</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Campaign#Battle_of_Asomante" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto Rican Campaign">Asomante</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mustang" title="Mustang">Mustang</a></li></ul></li>
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<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Potos%C3%AD_Mint_Fraud_of_1649" title="Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649">Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649</a></li></ul>
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