Florida has three distinct heritages. Explain how each have influenced the development of Florida politics.
300-500 word count
Florida’s Historic Developments Historic Development
1565-1890
Florida’s Three Heritages:
Spanish Heritage
Frontier Heritage
Southern Heritage
Spanish
Spanish Empire:
Borderlands
La Florida
San Agustin (1565)
Pensacola (1698)
Strategic Defense
Little Economic Development
Magnet for anti-British activities
Runaway slaves
Renegade Indians
Andrew Jackson
Joseph Marion Hernández
Spanish
Andrew Jackson (1817-8)
Invaded Florida in First Seminole War
Safe Haven
Adam Onis Treaty
Spanish Florida
Key West (De
Ybor City
Joseph Marion Hernández
Ethnic relations
Frontier
Under-Populated
90% in Panhandle
Smaller state in Confederacy
Three Seminole Wars: Out of Florida
Indian Removal
Indians keep pushing deeper South
System of Forts to protect white population: War of attrition
Seminole rights
Seminole Wars
Pushing South
Osceola
Southern Heritage
Slave State
Confederate State-1/10/1861
Reconstruction
Josiah Thomas Walls (1871-1878)
Election of 1876
Democratic Control
Silk Hats vs. Wool Hats
Jim Crown
Plessy v. Ferguson
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