Transfer of Florida
The British traded Havana Cuba to ____________ and received Florida in return.
Spain
When Florida became a state in 1845, it was known as a _________ state.
Slave
True or False: many battles of the Civil War were fought in the state of Florida.
False: Very few were fought in Florida because it was so far south and away from the boarder states (example: Virginia)
The period of Reconstruction is called this because....
It was a period of rebuilding the United States and was an attempt to heal and reunite the states that had fought so hard against each other during the Civil War.
Once Britain was in control of Florida it broke it into _____________________ and ____________________.
East Florida and West Florida
Because Florida was located in the south and was a slave state, it became part of the ______________ when it ____________ (broke away) from the Union prior to the Civil War.
Confederacy/seceded
Which Florida Civil War Battle happened even before the battle at Fort Sumter, South Carolina? Hint: some say it was actually the first battle of the Civil War.
Fort Pickens
What were Black Codes?
Laws that oppressed the former slaves.
East Florida's population was larger than West Florida's. East Florida had much more fertile soil to farm and it's Governor, James Grant reached out to people in other states to encourage them to move to Florida.
Florida was known as the ______________ of the Confederacy.
Supplier
The Battle of __________________ kept Tallahassee the only capital of the south to NOT be captured during the Civil War.
Natural Bridge
Land owners
During the Revolutionary War, the population of Florida was supportive of the __________ and were called Loyalists.
British
One of the ways that they Union tried to keep the Confederacy down was to limit the goods that made it to their army. To do this, they occupied, or _______________ ports like Jacksonville and Pensacola.
blockaded
The ___________________ was responsible for protecting cattle and other supplies like salt from the Union army.
Cow Cavalry
Why did the plantation owners need sharecropping?
When they lost their 'free labor' or their slaves, plantation owners needed a way to have workers on their plantations for little to no pay. So, they provided minimal machinery, shelter, and land to former slaves so they would work the land.
In 1821, when Spain gave Florida to the US (they had taken control during the Revolutionary War while the British were distracted) Florida became a US _____________.
Territory
The Emancipation Proclamation
This battle was one of the bloodiest of the Civil War. It was fought near Lake City Florida and was even included in the novel A Land Remembered.
Battle of Olustee
What did the former slaves need to do when sharecropping?
Former slaves would use the land a machinery to farm the land of the plantations. They then used the majority of the crops to pay their 'rent' to the landowners and were most often left with little to no crops to feed their family or sell for money of their own. Therefore, they were stuck remaining sharecroppers since they couldn't improve their financial situation.