History Florida State published by Happy Quinceanera

 

When it comes to Florida, everyone plunges into their dreams with a carefree smile, imagining a tropical paradise where the sea shimmers with all shades of turquoise and emeralds, where endless beaches are covered with hot sand, where palm leaves sway from the light breeze of the sea breeze. Also, this state is attractive for exciting amusement parks, rich in a variety of landscapes in which many animals, birds and fish live. But in addition to beauty and scenery, these lands are rich in a great historical and cultural heritage. Happy Quinceanera  wants to guide the peoples.

 

 Florida was the first continental United States to be discovered by Europeans. In April 1513, the Spanish conqueror Juan Ponce de Leon, who was looking for new lands north of Cuba, landed on the east coast of what is now Florida. It was Juan Ponce de Leon who first named the lands he discovered  La Florida - "blooming land", later this name was fixed as the official name of the state.

 

In subsequent years, the Spaniards continued to explore Florida. But their first attempts were unsuccessful. In the second half of the 16th century, the French also began to show interest in Florida. In 1564, on the northeast coast, on the site of present-day Jacksonville, Rene Goulin de Laudoniere founded Fort Caroline, the first French colony in the United States. True, the Spaniards did not want to surrender so easily, and by 1565 they built their fortified post near Fort Caroline - Fort San Agustin (from which the city of St. Augustine, one of the oldest cities in the United States, grew). A little later, Spanish soldiers captured the French fort of Caroline.

 

In the 17th century, the Spaniards continued to develop Florida, establishing new settlements (mainly Catholic missions) and suppressing periodically flaring Indian uprisings. At the end of the 17th - first half of the 18th centuries, pressure from the English colonists from the province of Carolina intensified from the north on the Spanish possessions, and from the northwest - from the French from Louisiana. Thus, as a result of many armed clashes, the Spanish positions on the Florida Peninsula were seriously weakened, and the Seminole Indians began to migrate from the north to the deserted lands, which subsequently caused a lot of trouble for the US army.

 

From 1814 to 1818 the so-called "First Seminole War" took place. It was a series of military battles between the Indians and the US Army under the command of Andrew Jackson. This war showed that Spain was unable to defend its holdings in Florida. And in 1819 an agreement was signed (the "Adams-Onis Treaty"), according to which Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

 

The treaty entered into force in 1821. The capital of the new US territory was the city of Tellahasi. Since the climate of the new territory was very favorable, settlers rushed there to manage the economy and create new settlements. But the matter was seriously complicated by the constant clashes with the Indians and the fugitive black slaves who were assimilated among them, known as the "Black Seminole".

 

To make life easier for its citizens, in 1823, the US government entered into an agreement with the Indian tribes. Under this treaty, the Indians were obliged to live peacefully and law-abiding on the territory of the reservation in central Florida, as well as return the fugitive slaves in exchange for providing livestock, food and agricultural equipment.

 

 

 

Then, in 1830, the US Congress passed the Indian Relocation Act, which moved all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River. The law was signed by Andrew Jackson, who had become president by that time. Nevertheless, many Indians were not going to leave their native lands, in connection with this a tense situation arose.

 

All these circumstances led to the outbreak of the Second Seminole War in 1835. This war turned out to be quite protracted, because only by 1842 the US army was able to suppress the resistance of the Indians in Florida, while suffering significant losses and spending several tens of millions of dollars. Virtually all Seminoles were forcibly relocated to lands west of the Mississippi River, in what is now Oklahoma. This is how Florida became the 27th US state on March 3, 1845.

 

 

 

 

                                                     

Florida sided with the Confederates during the Civil War. And after the state returned to the union in 1868, the region began to develop rapidly. New railways were built. By the end of the 19th century, Florida had become one of the world's tourism centers. In the 30s and 40s of the twentieth century, there was a sharp increase in the number of residents of the state. After World War II, the state's defense industry began to actively develop. An example of this is the fact that the authorities decided to build a cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral. It's worth noting that Florida's economy was heavily influenced by the 1959 Cuban Revolution. After her, thousands of immigrants poured north into the "flourishing land." Since the 1980s, tourism, the service sector and the public industrial sector have been the main sectors of the economy. Agricultural production is also developed, mostly oranges. Therefore, the state was given another nickname - "orange state". Fore read more click on happy quinceanera.