2. Florida Facts
Capital city: Tallahassee
Year of statehood: 1845 (27th state)
Population: about 19,000,000 (4th in the USA)
Size: 65,755 square miles (170,304 square km)
Largest city: Jacksonville
Governor: Rick Scott (Rep.)
3. Florida’s state seal
The state seal of
Florida shows:
-the sun’s rays
- a steamboat
- a sabal palm tree
- a Seminole
woman scattering
flowers
5. Florida’s history
• As more and more people came to live in
Florida, the government had more pressure to
make the Native Americans leave their land.
Also, many people who came to Florida had
plantations with slaves. The Seminole tribe
angered the new settlers because they kept
runaway slaves in their villages and integrated
with them. A treaty was signed with some
Seminoles agreeing to leave Florida, but others
stayed to defend their land. This resulted in the
Seminole Wars.
6. Florida’s history
Andrew Jackson –
general during the
Seminole Wars and 7th
president of the U.S.A. A group of Seminoles
Chief Osceola – an
important chief during
the Second Seminole
War
