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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Miami and nearby areas _______________ in the years following the Depression.
(a) Were destroyed.
(b) Were severely altered.
(c) Prospered.
(d) Withered.

3. During what war did the railroads handle the troops?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The Spanish American War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

4. Eventually Billy Bowlegs and others were offered money to leave Florida. Where did they go after they accepted the money?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Charleston.
(d) New Orleans.

5. The residents prospered with much of the work being performed by whom?
(a) Migrant Hispanics.
(b) Migrant Indians.
(c) Migrant whites.
(d) Migrant blacks.

6. __________ was the first to recover with a myriad of new hotels.
(a) New Smyrna Beach.
(b) Panama City Beach.
(c) Miami Beach.
(d) Dayton Beach.

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

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

9. The real estate boom spread throughout _______________ Florida.
(a) Northeastern.
(b) Southwestern.
(c) Southeastern.
(d) Northwestern.

10. When did the Army move out of Florida?
(a) After WWI.
(b) After the peace.
(c) After the Spanish-American War.
(d) Before war began.

11. In ___________, the murder of three men caused fears of another Indian uprising.
(a) 1849.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1884.

12. After ___________________, people decided to grow sugar cane in Florida.
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) World War II.

13. At this time, Captain _____________ took over the Office of Indian Affairs.
(a) Casey.
(b) Clark.
(c) Carson.
(d) Charles.

14. ________ hundred people followed him and lived in the commune he established.
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The University began in ___________ and grew.

3. Henry M. Flagler constructed a hotel in ______________ and was also interested in Florida railroads.

4. The Indians, who thought the new policy would allow them to remain in Florida, found they had been lied to. How did they react?

5. The surveyors entered ___________________ in the Everglades which violated the treaty with the Indians.

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