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How did Florida become a state? What were the events that led to it becoming a state? Make sure to put those events in order.

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Formal U.S. occupation began in 1821, and General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812, was appointed military governor. Florida was organized as a U.S. territory in 1822 and was admitted into the Union as a slave state in 1845.
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