YbOR CITY

CIGARS

• People started making cigars in Ybor city in the early 1830s.
• The cigar industry wasn't a big thing until 1868.
• The same year the cigar industry boomed a war developed in Cuba

VICENTE YBOR

• Ybor moved to Tampa from Cuba.
• The tobacco that made cigars came from Cuba by steamship.

CUBAN AND SPANISH IMMIGRANTS

• Cuban and Spanish immigrants came to Ybor City for work.
• Immigrants made Ybor city a place of Latino culture.
• In the factories, readers would read aloud to Cuban immigrants to gain education.

VOCABULARY

• Migrate: means to move.
• Immigrant: a person who moves from one country to another.

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