- 10% Plan
- Lincoln's plan to allow southern states to return peacefully
- Acculturation
- The adoption of another culture
- Adam /Onis Treaty
- Treaty who got Fl to america
- Adelantado
- Spanish "governor" of FL
- Anaconda Plan
- U.S plan to strangle south to surrendering
- Armed Occupation Act
- US law passed in 1842 granting 160 acres to any former soldier who wanted to move to florida
- Backcountry
- Region of western Fl more commonly associated with hunters/ tappers/ poor famers
- Barefoot Mailman
- Nickname given to South Florida's early mailman
- Beringia
- The land bridge that once connected Asia and N. America
- Bimini Boats
- Boats used to smuggle alcohol, fast and shallow
- Black Codes
- Unofficial rules that freedmen had to follow in Fl
- Blackbelt
- region in northern FL that have lots of slaves
- Bounty system
- system adopted by US army to capture seminoles during the 3rd indian war
- Carpetbagger
- Name givien to northerners who moved to Fl to buy land cheaply
- Cash Crop
- any crop harvested for sale, such as cotton, tobacco and rice
- Cimmarones
- spanish nickname given to Seminoles
- Circuit Riding
- name given to the remote travels of judges or preachers to early Florida farms
- Compass
- An instrument used in navigation, always points north
- Continental Congress
- An organization formed by Americans during their call for independence
- Cow Cavalry
- Special army in charge of defending the cattle herds
- Culture
- The way of life of a group of people
- Disenfranchisement
- The right to vote is taken away
- Encomienda
- Spanish system of forced labor by Native A. in FL
- FL cracker
- nickname given to poor yeoman white farmers in early FL
- Fort
- A military position created to defend a region or a settlement
- freedmen
- name given to newly freed slaves in south
- Freedmen's Bureau
- A government agency created to help freedmen with jobs, homes etc
- Guerrilla Warfare
- Type of warfare where no battles, hit and run
- Hot shot
- Cannon ball heated, designed to start fires on the targets
- Hurricane
- A tropical Storm with winds over 75 mph
- Jim Crow laws
- Laws in FL designed to stop political / social participation of freedmen
- KKK
- terroist in Fl targeted freedmen with violence
- literacy test
- a reading test required of freedmen in Fl prior to allowing them to vote
- Louisiana Purchase
- Purchase of a vast tract of land west of the Mississippi by the US in 1803
- Malaria
- deadly disease common in FL because of swamps and mosquitoes
- Manifest Destiny
- American Belief in the 1800's that the US had a God given right to control N. America
- Martial Law
- Rule of military, civil rights suspended
- Matanzas
- Spanish word for massacre, used often by conquistadors to name sites of battle
- Migration
- Mass movement of people to a new homeland
- Militia
- Small military unit, organized by states to provide support for the army
- Mission
- Religious communities determined to spread Christianity to early FL tribes
- muck bowl
- area around lake ockechobee
- Mutiny
- rebellion against military authority
- Nativism
- attitude in Fl where people were prejudiced against non-natives
- Navigate
- To steer or guide a vessel
- negro fort
- old fort where slaves hide, destroyed by Duncan Clinch
- Nomads
- People who moved from place to place in search of food/shelter etc.
- Overseer
- a person who managed the slaves of plantation
- Peonage System
- System where people in debt work to pay off, gets tubertine
- Plantation
- large farm used to grow cash crops, using slave labor
- poll tax
- a tax required of freedmen in FL before they can vote
- Polytheism
- The worship of more than one god
- Populist Movement
- movement where farmers tried to curb power of big businesses in FL
- Prohibition
- Nickname of the period where alcohol was banned
- Railroad Baron
- Name given to wealthy railroad owners who moved to FL
- reservations
- large area set aside for N. Americans by Feds
- Scalawag
- Southerns who helped northerners
- secession
- withdrawal of Southern states from the US
- Sharecropping
- System of payment where freedmen worked on plantations in exchange for land
- Slave Codes
- name given to set of rules or laws slaves had to obey in FL
- Spoils System
- Political System that rewards based on favors rather than ability
- St. Josephs Constitution
- FL's first state constitution ratified in 1838
- Tidewater
- region of eastern FL more commonly associated with large plantations
- Tin Can tourist
- Nickname given to tourists who drove automobiles to Fl's campgrounds
- Treaty of Moultrie Creek
- treaty signed by US and Sminoles that traded Tallahassee for land in the sounth in 1823
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty that ended the Revolutionary war
- Treaty of Payne's Landing
- Treaty signed in 1832 where Seminoles agree to leave Fl in 3 years
- USS Maine
- Warship sunk in 1898 starting the Spanish American War
- Volstead Act
- Law that started Prohibition, banned alcohol
