Tribes
Many tribes were killed off because of ____________, ________, ______________.
war, disease, slavery
Who was the Spanish explorer that sailed with Christopher Columbus?
Ponce de Leon
The Castillo de San Marcos is currently made of __________.
coquina
In the second Seminole war who defended his land and led the Seminoles?
Osceola
Who built a railroad system on the east coast of Florida so people could get to the southern beaches
Henry Flagler
This tribe lived on the southwest coast and built their dwellings on flat-topped mounds.
Calusa
What was the Spanish explorer that sailed with Columbus looking for?
The fountain of Youth
The city of ________________ was settled after the French were gone.
St. Augustine
The first Seminole was was fought over what?
runaway slaves and Seminoles
Who built a launch site for space travel in Cape Canaveral?
NASA
Some historians think that Indians arrived in Florida over___________years ago
10,000
de Leon called the land he found ____________, meaning beautiful flowers.
La Florida
Florida
When did Florida become a state?
1845
The biggest source of income for Florida after the first World War was_________________.
Tourism
This Native American group lived in Central Florida
Timucua
This explorer was sent by the king of Spain to force the French out of Fort Caroline.
Menendez
Who came to convert the Indians to Christianity in the 1600s?
Menendez and the missionaries
During the Civil War, Florida was part of the___________?
Confederacy
This resort is the largest of all family resorts built in FL in the 1960s.
Walt Disney World
What two tribes lived in South Florida ?
Mayaimi and Arawak
What was the name of the group of French protestants that settled at Fort Caroline.
Huguenots
In 1763, Florida was divided into two colonies, East Florida and West Florida. What were their capitals at that time?
East- St. Augustine
West- Pensacola
swamps
Because of the Florida population boom, Florida government workers are worried about__________
An overuse of Florida's natural resources