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Spain transfers Florida to the United States. It had an appointed territorial governor, a territorial legislature, and a nonvoting delagate to the United States Congress.
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Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna took an army into Texas and punishes rebels, but said rebels capture San Antonio.
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Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna took an army into Texas and attacked a mission building called the Alamo.
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In 1837 the census for the territory of Florida reported that 48,000 people lived there.
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56 people attend constitutional convention. Included allowing slavery and called a system of public schools.
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John Tyler became president and supported Texas Annexation.
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Texas joins the union after James K.Polk won.
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President John Tyler signed the Florida statehood bill. Florida became the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, 1845
