Florida State Study Guide Terms
& Definitions 2025/2026.
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Florida (name origin) -
Answer✓✓
-Ponce de Leon named Florida, 1512
-Indicated large, barely comprehended land mass known today as North America
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Shrinking Florida -
Answer✓✓
-Territory shrank over time
-Narrow strip of land and long peninsula (Gulf Coast, east of Mississippi)
-1810: shrank when American filibusters who coveted Mobile entrepot started rebellion
-1821: US annexed peninsula and panhandle
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Florida -
Answer✓✓
-Extension of Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain
-Low, level land
-Wetland
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Panhandle Hills -
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, Answer✓✓
-Northern half of panhandle
-Low hills
-Central Ridge: belt of slightly higher ground that runs down the center of the peninsula to Lake
Okeechobee
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Okefenokee Swamp -
Answer✓✓
-East of Central Ridge
-Far north, just across Georgia Border
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First People -
Answer✓✓
-Spanish settlement at Saint Augustine, 1565
-Small population for 250 years
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Annexation, population -
Answer✓✓
-About 5,000
-American migration to Florida was slow
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First line of migration -
Answer✓✓
-Coastal Georgia, west of Okefenokee, into the Panhandle Hills (Tallahassee Hills)
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& Definitions 2025/2026.
_____________Quiz____________?
Florida (name origin) -
Answer✓✓
-Ponce de Leon named Florida, 1512
-Indicated large, barely comprehended land mass known today as North America
_____________Quiz____________?
Shrinking Florida -
Answer✓✓
-Territory shrank over time
-Narrow strip of land and long peninsula (Gulf Coast, east of Mississippi)
-1810: shrank when American filibusters who coveted Mobile entrepot started rebellion
-1821: US annexed peninsula and panhandle
_____________Quiz____________?
Florida -
Answer✓✓
-Extension of Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain
-Low, level land
-Wetland
_____________Quiz____________?
Panhandle Hills -
1
, Answer✓✓
-Northern half of panhandle
-Low hills
-Central Ridge: belt of slightly higher ground that runs down the center of the peninsula to Lake
Okeechobee
_____________Quiz____________?
Okefenokee Swamp -
Answer✓✓
-East of Central Ridge
-Far north, just across Georgia Border
_____________Quiz____________?
First People -
Answer✓✓
-Spanish settlement at Saint Augustine, 1565
-Small population for 250 years
_____________Quiz____________?
Annexation, population -
Answer✓✓
-About 5,000
-American migration to Florida was slow
_____________Quiz____________?
First line of migration -
Answer✓✓
-Coastal Georgia, west of Okefenokee, into the Panhandle Hills (Tallahassee Hills)
_____________Quiz____________?
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