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Lesson 2 Statehood for Florida and Texas
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
Why does conflict develop?
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?
were enslaved people?
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3. Calculating About what fraction of the population in 1837
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Cont.
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Listing List four provisions in the constitution approved by delegates to Florida’s constitutional convention.
4.
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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.
1.
1830 2.
1836 1844
3.
4.
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1821 NAME DATE Guided Reading Cont.
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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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