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How did Vicente Martinez Ybor's work change Florida?

1 Increased production of oranges in summer
2 Made growing orange year-round easier
3 Opened Southeastern Florida to development
4Started an industry that employed thousands of workers

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Martinez Ybor's plan worked. After a slow start, both his businesses and Ybor City as a whole flourished, with the area's cigar factories hand-rolling and shipping tens of millions of cigars annually by the late 1880s, the number increasing into the hundreds of millions by the turn of the 20th century.

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