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July 21: Escambia County and St. John's County, Florida's first two counties are established. December 31: Andrew Jackson leaves office as the governor of Florida. 1822 March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office.
December 7, 1787 Delaware: 30 0 2 December 11, 1787 Pennsylvania: 46 23 3 December 18, 1787 New Jersey: 38 0 4 January 2, 1788 Georgia: 26 0 5 January 9, 1788 Connecticut: 128 40 6 February 6, 1788 Massachusetts: 187 168 7 April 26, 1788 Maryland: 63 11 8 May 23, 1788 South Carolina: 149 73 9 June 21, 1788 New Hampshire: 57 47 10 June 25, 1788 ...
A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.
Delaware and New Jersey ratified in 1787, and Georgia ratified on January 2, 1788, all by unanimous votes. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina all ratified by large majorities over the winter and spring of 1788. It was more controversial in other states, with Massachusetts only ratifying by a narrow vote of 187–168.
South Carolina; Virginia; ... Events from the year 1787 in the United States. ... (1781–1788) Northwest Indian War (1785–1795) Births
Only Florida reached that level, and seven of the thirteen Southern states spent under $31,000 per 1,000 children. [142] [143] Conditions were marginally better in newer growing areas, such as in Texas and central Florida, with the deepest poverty in South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
All the leaders of the new nation were committed to republicanism, and the doubts of the Anti-Federalists of 1788 were allayed with the passage of a Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution in 1791. [3] The first census enumerated a population of 3.9 million. Only 12 cities had populations of more than 5,000; most people ...
Spanish Florida was established in the 1500s, when Spain laid claim to land explored by several expeditions across the future southeastern United States.The introduction of diseases to the indigenous peoples of Florida caused a steep decline in the original native population over the following century, and most of the remaining Apalachee and Tequesta peoples settled in a series of missions ...