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. 9.1 Colleges and universities The Confederacy received little help from Florida; the 15,000 men it offered were generally sent elsewhere Instead of men and manufactured goods Florida did provide salt and more importantly beef to feed the Confederate armies This was particularly important after 1864 when the Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River thereby losing access to Texas beef the largest engagements in the state were the Battle of Olustee on February 20 1864 and the Battle of Natural Bridge on March 6 1865 Both were Confederate victories the war ended in 1865. . A contemporaneous depiction of the New River Massacre in 1836. Dade County was created on January 18 1836 under the Territorial Act of the United States the county was named after Major Francis L Dade a soldier killed in 1835 in the Second Seminole War at what has since been named the Dade Battlefield At the time of its creation Dade County included the land that now contains Palm Beach and Broward counties together with the Florida Keys from Bahia Honda Key north and the land of present-day Miami-Dade County the county seat was originally at Indian Key in the Florida Keys; then in 1844 the County seat was moved to Miami the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Bahia Honda were returned to Monroe County in 1866 in 1888 the county seat was moved to Juno near present-day Juno Beach Florida returning to Miami in 1899 in 1909 Palm Beach County was formed from the northern portion of what was Dade County and then in 1915 Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create what is now Broward County There have been no significant boundary changes to the county since 1915. Cypress swamps can be found throughout the Everglades but the largest covers most of Collier County the Big Cypress Swamp is located to the west of the sawgrass prairies and sloughs and it is commonly called "The Big Cypress." the name refers to its area rather than the height or diameter of the trees; at its most conservative estimate the swamp measures 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) but the hydrologic boundary of the Big Cypress can be calculated at over 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) Most of the Big Cypress sits atop a bedrock covered by a thinner layer of limestone the limestone underneath the Big Cypress contains quartz which creates sandy soil that hosts a variety of vegetation different from what is found in other areas of the Everglades the basin for the Big Cypress receives on average 55 inches (140 cm) of water in the wet season, Other races: 3.5% [214,451], 3 Fort Lauderdale Broward 152,397 165,521 182,595 +10.32% The FIU College of Law was ranked 5th in 2014 in bar passing rates in the state of Florida and 1st in the MPRE. .

. Concourse F Miami-Dade County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S state of Florida It is the southeasternmost county on the U.S mainland According to a 2018 census report the county had a population of 2,761,581 making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States It is also Florida's third largest county in terms of land area with 1,946 square miles (5,040 km2) the county seat is Miami the principal city in South Florida. . . 19 Weston Broward 49,251 65,333 71,210 +9.00% After Frank Borman became president of Eastern Airlines in 1975 he moved Eastern's headquarters from Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan New York City to an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Around 1991 the Miami-Dade County lost a few corporations including Eastern Airlines which folded in 1991. . From the 1930s through much of the 1960s Florida was essentially a one-party state dominated by white conservative Democrats who together with other Democrats of the "Solid South" exercised considerable control in Congress They have gained slightly less federal money from national programs than they have paid in taxes Since the 1970s conservative white voters in the state have largely shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party Though the majority of registered voters in Florida are Democrats it continued to support Republican presidential candidates through 2004 except in 1976 and 1996 when the Democratic nominee was from "the South", 2 Other professional teams (19.4) 3 Demographics In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it.