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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Taylor retired from the Army in __________, he was replaced by Brigadier General Taylor and a new government policy.
(a) 1850.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1840.

2. Cattle country developed west of _____________.
(a) Clewiston.
(b) Cedar Key.
(c) Cape Coral.
(d) Callaway.

3. Since Taylor allowed the Blacks to go west with the Indians and prevented them from being hunted in the war zone, __________ hundred of the Indians agreed to move west.
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

4. This was the _________ big archaeological find in the Everglades and provided knowledge about the prehistoric Glades people.
(a) First.
(b) Third.
(c) Only.
(d) Second.

5. There was a ___________________ epidemic after the Spanish American war.
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Pel-Ebstein.
(c) Scarlet.
(d) Typhoid.

6. Mail delivery developed slowly first by foot, and then by wagon and ____________.
(a) Train.
(b) Stagecoach.
(c) Bus.
(d) Boat.

7. Major General Twiggs was ordered to the area. He established a post named Fort Myers after who?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His son.
(c) His future son-in-law.
(d) His father.

8. When the cattle became infested with ticks, they blamed what for carrying ticks?
(a) The alligators.
(b) The blacks.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The deer.

9. When the Indians attacked ______________ Key, Perrine was killed but his wife and children escaped.
(a) Indian.
(b) Big Pine.
(c) Largo.
(d) Biscayne.

10. Why did the rowing of the answer to 164 become more important in 1960?
(a) After the invention of the cotton gin in 1798.
(b) After Fidel Castro's 1960 sugar embargo.
(c) After the Midwestern Corn Embargo of 1876.
(d) After the grain embargo of 1980.

11. 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.

12. The state was still trying to do what to the Indians?
(a) Make peace with them.
(b) Force them to Westernize.
(c) Get rid of the Indians.
(d) Kill them.

13. ____________________ set up a company to obtain land grants in the Everglades.
(a) William H. Glenn.
(b) William H. Green.
(c) William H. Gleason.
(d) William H. Graham.

14. In __________, the Everglades became a national park.
(a) 1957.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1947.

15. The man who dredged the first canal purchased four ___________ acres of swamp land west of Lake Okeechobee.
(a) Trillion.
(b) Million.
(c) Billion.
(d) Thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what war did the railroads handle the troops?

2. Dr. Cyrus Teed founded the _________________ which was devoted to communal living.

3. __________ was the first to recover with a myriad of new hotels.

4. Port ________________ became a good, increasingly important port.

5. What did the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project affect?

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