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Lesson 2 Statehood for Florida and Texas

Florida

Answering Questions As you read the section, answer the questions below.

1. Identifying From which states did many of the planters who moved to Florida come?

2. Explaining Why did planters from those states move to Florida?

3. Calculating About what fraction of the population in 1837 were enslaved people?

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONWhy does conflict develop?

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Listing List four provisions in the constitution approved by delegates to Florida’s constitutional convention.

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8. Analyzing Why did it take six years before Florida became a state? How was the conflict solved?

Texas

Sequencing Important events in the history of Texas are listed on the time line below. In the box under each one write how that event changed Texas.

1821  1830  1836  1844

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Identifying Write one way each of the following people affected the history of Texas. 

5. Sam Houston  

6. Jim Bowie  

7. Davy Crockett  

8. Stephen Austin  

9. Santa Anna  

10. William Barret Travis  

11. Analyzing How did the issue of slavery affect Texas’ request to become a state?

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