Native Americans
The people of this Native tribe lived with the Spaniards at the missions located throughout northern Florida.
This explorer was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida in 1513 and called the land "La Florida".
Who is Ponce de Leon?
During the Civil War, Florida supplied the Confederate Army with many supplies and was an especially large producer of this resource, which many of us have on our own dinner tables.
What is salt?
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford had winter homes in this city, just south of us. They can still be visited to this day.
What is Fort Myers?
This English explorer sailed around the world and Queen Elizabeth I knighted him to recognize his success.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
This group of Native Americans were a small, peaceful tribe who lived near present day Miami.
Who are the Tequesta Indians?
This explorer arrived near Tampa Bay in 1528 and then had a series of unfortunate events throughout La Florida.
Who is Panfilo de Narvaez?
On March 3, 1845 Florida became which number state to enter the Union?
What is the 27th?
By 1900, Florida had more than 3,000 miles of this which helped make transportation into our state convenient and easy.
What are railroads?
What is St. Augustine?
This group of Natives lived at the Northern end of Tampa Bay from around 900 to the 1500s.
This Spanish explorer was known to be very brutal, often enslaving, mutilating and executing Natives without any provocation.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
During this country's rule over Florida, Florida was divided into East and West Florida with Pensacola being the capital of West Florida and St Augustine being the capital of East Florida.
What is Britain?
During the 1920s, Florida experienced a land ______ which caused a lot of growth, but also problems, like unaffordable rent and a supply chain that was unable to be kept up with.
What is boom?
This fort was the first free African American settlement in America.
What is Fort Mose?
After members of this tribe died out, it is believed that those who survived may have joined the Seminole tribe.
This French explorer sailed with 3 ships that carried French Huguenots (French Protestants) and ended up being arrested and imprisoned for establishing a French colony in a Spanish territory.
Who is Jean Ribault?
In 1829, this person became President of the United States and signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 forcing Natives to move to land west of the Mississippi River- a sad time in our nation's history.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The second deadliest natural disaster to hit the United States, was a hurricane that hit Florida in this year. Surprisingly, Florida had also been hit with a major hurricane 2 years prior as well.
What is 1928?
This young, Native Floridian photographer, filmographer and conservationist works tirelessly to showcase natural beauty of Florida through his social media pages and independent films.
Who is Luca Martinez?
This tribe name means "fierce" people and they were from the southwest area of Florida.
Who are the Calusa Indians?
On September 8, 1565, this explorer officially named St Augustine after he was sent here to drive out the French colonists.
Who is Pedro Menendez de Aviles?
This is the term coined for the period of time after the Civil War where the nation had to rebuild itself. During this time period, sharecropping and Jim Crow Laws became standard for freed slaves. Florida experienced a travel boom during this period.
What is Reconstruction?
On July 24, 1950 a small rocket was launched from this coastal Florida city which now houses NASA and other space exploration programs.
What is Cape Canaveral?
After the hard fought Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, many other groups worked for Civil Rights. In 1979, Robert "Bob" Martinez became mayor of Tampa and in 1987 he became Florida's first Hispanic what?
What is governor?