FLORIDA CONNECTIONS TO US HISTORY SS Standards – 3.13, 4.11, 5.12, 6.15, 7.17.
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Transcript of FLORIDA CONNECTIONS TO US HISTORY SS Standards – 3.13, 4.11, 5.12, 6.15, 7.17.
FLORIDA CONNECTIONS TO US HISTORYSS Standards – 3.13, 4.11, 5.12, 6.15, 7.17
Civil War and Reconstruction• Anaconda Plan
• How does Florida fit into the plan which the Union uses to win the war?
• Blockade runners• Supplies like cattle, salt
• Carpetbaggers• Sharecropping• Jim Crow Laws – the Nadir of
Race relations
Industrial Age – Railroads,Robber Barons
• East Coast Railroads – Henry Flagler• Hotels/Resorts on Beaches• Bridge Construction in FL Keys
• West Coast Railroads – Henry Plant• Panhandle – William Chipley
Breakers – Palm Beach
Plant Hotel - Tampa
Cattle Boom / Boom Towns - Mining• Florida “Cow Hunters”
• Punta Russo, Tampa• Jake Summerlin
• Phosphate Boom Towns• Dunnellon, Floral City, Arcadia
Farmers Problems in late 1800s• Grange / Farmer’s Alliance
• Later People’s Party / Populists (W.J. Bryan)• What are farmer’s problem with railroads?
• Ocala Platform / “Ocala Demands” (1890)• Many of the ideas later adopted in Progressive Movement• 16th & 17th amendments, Federal Reserve• But idea of government control of RR was not adopted
Immigration at Turn of the Century• Influence of Cuban, Greek, and Italian immigrants
• Ybor City (Tampa) – Cigar Industry• Tarpon Springs – sponges• Zolfo Springs – Italian, RR
Spanish American War• Plant / Tampa Bay Hotel – launching point
1920s Boom and Bust in Florida• Early 20s Land Boom – prices skyrocket due to
speculation (like stocks did)• By 1927 – Bust as bottom fell out
• On of the causes of the bust were Hurricanes that hit South Florida• Florida enters the Great Depression before the 1929 crash
1920s Black Scare• KKK re-emerges in the US and Florida
• Idea of 100% Americanism
• Rosewood Massacre
Some Famous Floridians in the early 1900s• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – writer about Florida
• The Yearling, Cross Creek
• Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem Renaissance writer• Mary McCloud Bethune – started school for black girls
• Part of Black Cabinet to advise FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt
Florida in World War II• WWII was beneficial to the State.
• Agriculture and Industry increased• Ports
• Many bases were built (converted) for year-round training• Ft. Blanding -Beach Hotels
• Training for D-Day in various locations• Back-lighting
• Treat of German subs and invasion threat of coastal cities • “Mosquito Fleet” – Civil Air Patrol to protect Coast
Florida in Civil Rights Era• Double V campaign in WWII
• “Wade-ins”• Segregated Beaches in FL
• Sit-ins• FSU/FAMU students together
• Florida Governors• Leroy Collins and Reubin Askew not
like Wallace or Faubus
• Resistance to Integration• “Pork-Chop Gang”
• Group of North-Central Florida Politicians that opposed integration
• (Think “Dixiecrats”)
• Harry T. Moore• Florida NAACP leader• Killed in 1951 by KKK
• UF Law School denials• Virgil Hawkins
Cold War Impact on Florida
• Space Race• NASA / Space program
on East coast of FL
• Cuba Impact• 1959 Cuban Coup and
refugees to Florida• Bay of Pigs training• Cuban Missile Crisis impact
Demographic Trends in past 50 years• Graying of America
• As Baby Boomers age, health care advances, people live longer
• Impact on Florida?• Claude Pepper• Impact on SSI?
• Immigration Trends
• Most from Latin America and Asia
• Impact on Florida?
• Minority-Majority future
Rust Belt – Sun Belt - People moving from Northern states to Southern states - Impact on Electoral College?
Misc. Recent Florida History• 1971 – Walt Disney World Opens
• Interstate impact (death by interstate for some)• Growth of Orlando and other Tourist areas
• 1992 – Hurricane Andrew• 2000 – Presidential Election
• Recount, Chads, Butterfly ballots
Florida in Wars• Why would Florida be important during
• Civil War?• Spanish-American War?• World War I?• World War II?
• What is Backlighting?