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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Indians make a living?
(a) By capturing birds and selling them to Havana.
(b) By selling Indian souvenirs.
(c) By capturing wild animals and selling them to zoos and circuses.
(d) By selling alcohol.

2. 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 compete with the slave labor in Florida.
(d) They did not want to live in a tropical climate.

3. Slaves continued to escape to Florida. Why were slaves valuable?
(a) They were not intelligent.
(b) They did not have to be paid.
(c) They could not be imported to the United States legally after 1808.
(d) They were strong.

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

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

6. These men continued to purchase railroads. Why?
(a) Railroads were cheap.
(b) They had an entire coastline to cover.
(c) They thought they could use the Everglades land.
(d) They had nothing better to do.

7. What did the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project affect?
(a) The tourist population of Florida.
(b) The bird population of the Everglades.
(c) The cattle ranchers.
(d) Nothing.

8. The crime in the Everglades increased due to what?
(a) Severe poverty.
(b) The goods being transported through the Everglades.
(c) Hijacking.
(d) Mental illness.

9. When Broward became governor in __________, they again tried to drain the Everglades.
(a) 1915.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1925.

10. The Indians, who thought the new policy would allow them to remain in Florida, found they had been lied to. How did they react?
(a) They asked other European nations to help them.
(b) They protested.
(c) They attacked the army settlement at Charlotte Harbor.
(d) They left Florida.

11. Billy Bowlegs told Twiggs that the murders were committed by whom?
(a) The white man.
(b) Black slaves.
(c) Himself.
(d) Five young Indians that had been captured by Chief Chitto-Hadjo.

12. Progress and expansion occurred along the East Coast. How much took place in the Everglades?
(a) Some.
(b) None.
(c) A great deal.
(d) Very little.

13. People moved into the Everglades. How did they live with the Indians?
(a) Not well.
(b) Peacefully.
(c) Peacefully for only a couple of years.
(d) In separate, guarded communities.

14. Towns formed along _____________ Florida East Coast Railroad.
(a) Plant's.
(b) Douglas'.
(c) Flagler's.
(d) Disston's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By ___________, the government was told that Disston would not be able to drain all of the Everglades.

2. Who replaced these workers after World War II?

3. When was rum running popular?

4. When the Civil War ended slavery, it also ended what?

5. Mail delivery developed slowly first by foot, and then by wagon and ____________.

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