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FLORIDA . . .
The
Story Continues
CHAPTER 14, New Movements in America
(1815–1850)
PLACES
1830: The city of Tampa forms in East Florida. The
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1820: Cotton plantations expand in Middle Florida.
Florida Territory was divided into three areas: East, Middle, and West. Saint Augustine was the largest city in East Florida and was the center of the citrus industry. The town that had been called Cowford in British times was renamed Jacksonville to honor General Andrew Jackson. Jacksonville was next to the first major road in Florida. Some new East Florida towns that formed in the 1820s and 1830s were Mayport, Green Cove Springs, Ocala, and Tampa.
PEOPLE
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In the 1820s the central region of Florida, called Middle Florida, grew rapidly due primarily to the production of cotton. Most of the cotton plantations of Middle Florida did not have the mansions or wealthy aristocracy often associated with Southern plantations. The growth of the cotton economy in Middle Florida would impact the state’s politics, and eventually lead to the state seceding from the Union in 1861.
1845: William D. Moseley becomes Florida’s first governor. In 1835 William Dunn Moseley (1795–
1863) moved from North Carolina to a plantation in Jefferson County, Florida. He served in Florida’s territorial house of representatives and senate in the 1840s. When Florida became a state in 1845, Moseley became its first governor. Under Moseley, Florida established a state government and
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participated in the Mexican-American War. At the end of his term as governor, Moseley moved to Palatka, where he lived until his death in 1863.
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1841: Yellow Fever epidemic hits St. Joseph in West Florida. The
seaport town of St. Joseph was Florida’s largest city in the early 1800s, with a population of 6,000. It served as a shipping port for much of Middle and West Florida. However, in 1841 a ship carrying people with yellow fever arrived, and more than 75 percent of the town died in the epidemic that followed. Shortly after that a hurricane destroyed the town.
EVENTS
1845: Florida enters the Union as the 27th state. In 1845 Florida,
with a population of 70,000, became the 27th state of the United States. Rapid
economic growth followed, and by 1860, the population had more than doubled. Its principal exports were cotton and forest products. The cattle industry was also important to the state’s economy.
PEOPLE
1845: David Levy Yulee becomes Florida’s first U.S. Senator.
David Levy Yulee (1810–1886) grew up on his father’s plantation near Micanopy, Florida. He practiced law in Saint Augustine and was elected territorial delegate to the national House of Representatives in 1841. He was instrumental in Florida becoming a state in 1845 and became the state’s first U.S. senator. Yulee helped establish railroads systems throughout the state. He supported an expansion of slave states and in 1860 supported Florida secession from the Union.
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