Florida was named by Ponce de Leon, he called the land "la Florida" -spanish for flowery. Historians think that he named the state because he discovered it on Easter or Palm Sunday.
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From 1863 and 1869, roughly 15,000 Chinese workers helped build the transcontinental railroad. Chinese workers made up most of the workforce between roughly 700 miles of train tracks between Sacramento, California, and Promontory, Utah.
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