The History of Florida by Michael Gannon

The History of Florida by Michael Gannon

Author:Michael Gannon [Gannon, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Americas
ISBN: 9780813044644
Amazon: 0813044642
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2013-09-08T04:00:00+00:00


274 · Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida’s Capitol at Tallahassee as it appeared in the 1870s. A cupola would be added in

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1891, and the building would serve until a new Capitol was built nearby in 1978.

most offices at state and local levels elective, and strengthened the powers of

local officials. It also provided for a poll tax, which was enacted by the 1889

legislature. That law effectively kept most black voters away from the pol s.

The Republican Party ceased to be a serious challenge to Democratic con-

trol of the state, and Florida would be a one-party state for many decades.

The years of Reconstruction had been turbulent and traumatic for many

Floridians, and the Democrats successful y used recollections of those years

to cement political control, but there were other important results. There

was a definite shift of the population southward and a corresponding dimi-

nution of the hegemony of Middle Florida planters. The plantation belt re-

mained comparatively static until well into the twentieth century, while the

peninsula, all the way from Jacksonville southward, was settled by both per-

manent inhabitants and winter residents. Many of both groups engaged in

citrus culture and tourism. Others turned to railroad construction to bind

the new section to the rest of the nation. These changes were set in motion

during the Reconstruction era, but their development is a matter for later

chapters.

Reconstruction and Renewal, 1865–1877 · 275

Notes

1. Florida, House Journal, 1865–66.

2. Helen Moore Edwards, Memoirs (privately printed, n.d.).

3. H. Reed to D. L. Yulee, 16 February 1868, David L. Yulee Papers, P. K. Yonge Library

of Florida History, University of Florida, Gainesville.

4. Henry L’Engle to E. M. L’Engle, 23 July 1875, Edward M. L’Engle Papers, Southern

Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil .

5. Ida Wood to Mrs. Long, 8 April 1872, Richard Keith Call Papers, Southern Historical

Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil .

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