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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By ___________, the government was told that Disston would not be able to drain all of the Everglades.
(a) 1882.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1892.

3. Eventually the first canal was dredged by _________________.
(a) Hamilton Disston.
(b) Henry Deveau.
(c) Harrison DeVane.
(d) Hank Dillon.

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

5. This chapter is a result of a __________ discussion with the author about what has happened in the forty years since the book was first published.
(a) 1977.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1967.

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

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

8. George Merrick designed the plans for the city to be called _________ Gables.
(a) Shining.
(b) High.
(c) Coral.
(d) Green.

9. People were now interested in making a life in other parts of Florida, mainly where?
(a) Along the coast.
(b) Along the west coast.
(c) In the interior.
(d) Along the northern border.

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

11. 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 the Midwestern Corn Embargo of 1876.
(c) After the grain embargo of 1980.
(d) After Fidel Castro's 1960 sugar embargo.

12. Henry M. Flagler constructed a hotel in ______________ and was also interested in Florida railroads.
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Tampa.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) Miami.

13. ____________ Taylor was in charge of Florida and the government's Indian policy.
(a) John.
(b) Zachariah.
(c) Zadok.
(d) Zachary.

14. 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) Seven.
(b) Nine.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project would manage the water of the Everglades and the cities through what?

2. People moved into the Everglades. How did they live with the Indians?

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

4. The Everglades still has problems, as does the rest of the area, because of what?

5. When Broward became governor in __________, they again tried to drain the Everglades.

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