EOC Florida History Notes

Henry B. Plant

Built the Tampa Bay Hotel (now U. of Tampa) and added rail lines to central Florida (built on West Coast of Florida)

Henry Flagler

Built the Ponce De Leon Hotel (now Flagler College) in St. Augustine and built rail lines down the east coast of Florida to Key West

Tampa (Spanish American War)

was used for a staging area for the Spanish American War before heading to Cuba. Rough Riders

Rosewood, FL

Racially motivated massacre of several African Americans in 1923.

Tallahassee Bus Boycott

May 1956 run by CK Steele

Land boom

in early 1920s

Land bust

after hurricane in 1926

Hurricane Andrew

in south Florida in 1992

Presidential Election 2000

Bush v. Gore

Mary McLeod Bethune

Founded what is now Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona.Appointed by FDR to the National Youth Administration in 1936 and became the Director of Negro Affairs. Was at the founding conference of the UN.

Zora Neale Hurston

African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance. Lived in Florida as a child. Worked for the Florida division of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) part of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal. Toured around Florida and wrote about turpentine camps.

Jonathan Gibbs

1st black Secretary of State

Economy of Florida

Cattle

Military bases built(Economy)

Florida in WWII

Soldiers that trained here(Economy/Militarism)

during WWII they trained in Florida and then moved here after the war

NASA(Economy)

Kennedy Space Center headquarters in Florida.