Florida State Study Guide Terms & Definitions 2025/2026.

Florida State Study Guide Terms
& Definitions 2025/2026.


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Florida (name origin) -

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-Ponce de Leon named Florida, 1512
-Indicated large, barely comprehended land mass known today as North America


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Shrinking Florida -

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-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 -

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-Extension of Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain
-Low, level land
-Wetland


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Panhandle Hills -



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-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 -

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-East of Central Ridge
-Far north, just across Georgia Border


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First People -

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-Spanish settlement at Saint Augustine, 1565
-Small population for 250 years


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Annexation, population -

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-About 5,000
-American migration to Florida was slow


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First line of migration -

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-Coastal Georgia, west of Okefenokee, into the Panhandle Hills (Tallahassee Hills)


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