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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There was a quarantine that stopped everything but what in Miami?
(a) The night clubs.
(b) The shipping industry.
(c) Real estate activity.
(d) The railroad.

2. How did Menendez secure the release of all of the captives?
(a) By raiding Chief Carlos' ship and freeing the captives.
(b) By giving Chief Carlos a great deal of money.
(c) By inviting Chief Carlos and twenty of his men to dinner on his boat and sailing to the open sea telling the Indians that they would be released when the captives were released.
(d) By killing Chief Carlos.

3. After the passage of the ___________________, the Everglades came under the control of the state of Florida.
(a) Tropics Act of 1840.
(b) Swamp Lands Act of 1850.
(c) Everglades Act of 1860.
(d) Florida Act of 1870.

4. The rains begin in ________________.
(a) April or May.
(b) March or April.
(c) May or June.
(d) June or July.

5. Why did most European immigrants go further west?
(a) They did not feel safe in Florida.
(b) They feared the Indians.
(c) They did not want to live in a tropical climate.
(d) They did not want to compete with the slave labor in Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Indian Key and ______________ were the two most important settlements along the coast.

2. The man who dredged the first canal purchased four ___________ acres of swamp land west of Lake Okeechobee.

3. What were there many of in Miami at this time?

4. The maps they made contained many errors. Why?

5. They began to hypothesize that the world was what?

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