. On March 3 1845 only one day before the end of President John Tyler's term in office Florida became the 27th state to join the United States of America the state was admitted as a slave state and ceased to be a sanctuary for runaway slaves Initially its population grew slowly. HistoryMiami Downtown Miami The Miami-Dade Aviation Department(MDAD) operates Miami International Airport Miami Executive Airport Opa-locka Executive Airport Homestead General Aviation Airport and Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport. In 2010 more than 63% of state voters approved the initiated Amendments 5 and 6 to the state constitution to ensure more fairness in districting These have become known as the Fair District Amendments As a result of the 2010 United States Census Florida gained two House of Representative seats in 2012 the legislature issued revised congressional districts in 2012 which were immediately challenged in court by supporters of the above amendments, From the Glades peoples two major nations emerged in the area: the Calusa and the Tequesta the Calusa was the largest and most powerful nation in South Florida it controlled fifty villages located on Florida's west coast around Lake Okeechobee and on the Florida Keys Most Calusa villages were located at the mouths of rivers or on key islands the Calusa were hunter-gatherers who lived on small game fish turtles alligators shellfish and various plants Most of their tools were made of bone or teeth although sharpened reeds were also effective for hunting or war Calusa weapons consisted of bows and arrows atlatls and spears Canoes were used for transportation and South Florida tribes often canoed through the Everglades but rarely lived in them Canoe trips to Cuba were also common, As of 2010 the population of Downtown Miami was 65,696 people with a population density of 27,487 per square mile in the 2010 US Census the racial makeup of Downtown was 57.6% Hispanic of any race 30.8% White (non-Hispanic) 7.2% Black and 2.9% Asian the zip codes for Brickell include 33129 33130 and 33131 the area covers 1.084 square miles (2.81 km2). . The Skytrain automated people mover built by Parsons and Odebrecht with trains from Sumitomo Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries opened in September 2010 it transports domestic passengers between four stations within Concourse D located at gates D17 D24 D29 and D46; it also connects arriving international passengers who have not yet cleared border customs to the Concourse D FIS, 32.2% State of Florida, Alice Wainwright Park Brickell. Tamarac West Indian manatee, 7.4 Atlantic World 2.3.2 Civil Rights Movement, Calusa and Tequesta 9 Transportation Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center.
. Contents 1850 159 -64.3% The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S state of Florida comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the neotropic ecozone the ecosystem it forms is not presently found anywhere else on earth the system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state the Everglades experience a wide range of weather patterns from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season the Seminole Tribe gave the large body of water the name Okeechobee meaning "River of Grass" to describe the sawgrass marshes part of a complex system of interdependent ecosystems that include cypress swamps the estuarine mangrove forests of the Ten Thousand Islands tropical hardwood hammocks pine rockland and the marine environment of Florida Bay Throughout the 20th century the Everglades suffered significant loss of habitat and environmental degradation, Boca Raton 84,392 74,764 Palm Beach, Other settlements within Miami's city limits were Lemon City (now Little Haiti) and Coconut Grove Settlements outside the city limits were Biscayne in present-day Miami Shores and Cutler in present-day Palmetto Bay Many of the settlers were homesteaders attracted to the area by offers of 160 acres (0.6 km2) of free land by the United States federal government. ; .
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