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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did they want to grow sugar?
(a) They could replace the chemicals that were missing from the land.
(b) The country was in need of more sugar.
(c) Sugar was becoming very popular.
(d) Many sugar crops had died elsewhere in the country due to disease.

2. Who was the first group of white men to ever cross the Everglades from east to west?
(a) Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.
(b) De Soto and his men.
(c) Colonel Harney and his troops.
(d) Washington and the Army of Virginia.

3. In ___________, the Miami area was struck by a hurricane.
(a) 1926.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1906.

4. In Chapter 5, the explorations continue where?
(a) In North and South America.
(b) In Central America and Mexico.
(c) In South American and Central America.
(d) In North America and Mexico.

5. In ____________, Carl Fisher laid out the plans for Miami Beach and built hotels.
(a) 1915.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boats frequently left ____________ for Florida and the Indians would wait for them.

2. The area south of ___________________ was successfully growing fruits.

3. A thirteen-year-old boy named Escalante de Fonteneda remained with the Indians for how many years?

4. The government's policy now was to suppress the Indians and this was the job of Colonel __________.

5. He wrote of his years with the Indians and talked of the great Chief ___________ who wanted to unite all of the Everglades Indians into a federation which he would control.

(see the answer key)

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