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	FLORIDA HERITAGE COLLECTION
	FLORIDA HISTORY TIMELINE


	FLORIDA BEFORE COLUMBUS, through 1492
	EUROPEAN DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT IN FLORIDA, 1492-1821
	Explorers and Travelers, 1492-1700 Spanish Florida, 1559-1763 French Rivalry, 1562-1565 British Florida, 1763-1783 The Second Spanish Period, 1783-1821
	TERRITORIAL FLORIDA, 1821-1845
	Wars of Indian Removal, 1817-1858
	ANTE-BELLUM FLORIDA, 1845-1861
	CIVIL WAR IN FLORIDA, 1861-1865
	ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY: POST-CIVIL WAR FLORIDA, 1865-1913
	Reconstruction Era, 1865-1877 Business, Agriculture, and Tourism 1878-1897 Florida and the War for Cuban Independence, 1898 The New Century and a Growing State, 1899-1913
	FLORIDA DURING WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918
	THE FLORIDA BOOM AND BUST, 1919-1929
	DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL YEARS IN FLORIDA, 1930-1941
	FLORIDA IN WORLD WAR II, 1941-1945
	POST-WAR FLORIDA, 1945-1960
	CONTEMPORARY FLORIDA, 1960-


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FLORIDA HISTORY TIMELINE : ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY: POST-CIVIL WAR FLORIDA 1865-1913

Florida and the War for Cuban Independence, 1898

In 1898 national attention focused on Florida, as the Spanish-American War began. The port city of Tampa served as the primary staging area for U.S. troops bound for the war in Cuba. Many Floridians supported the Cuban peoples' desire to be free of Spanish colonial rule.

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Text from: A Short History of Florida
Used with the permission of Florida's Division of Historical Resources