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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Indian Key and ______________ were the two most important settlements along the coast.
(a) Key West.
(b) Key Largo.
(c) Key Biscayne.
(d) Elliott Key.

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

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

4. The lives of the Indians were also changing as they adapted more modern ways, especially who?
(a) The younger females.
(b) The younger ones.
(c) The men.
(d) The younger males.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The state was still trying to do what to the Indians?

2. When Taylor retired from the Army in __________, he was replaced by Brigadier General Taylor and a new government policy.

3. The waters are now affected by what?

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

5. There was a quarantine that stopped everything but what in Miami?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Taylor retired? Why?

2. Why did the whites want the Indians to leave?

3. Why was tourism important to Florida? Why has this importance continued to today?

4. What is the purpose of this chapter?

5. How was corruption and crime a part of life in Florida in this chapter? How is this also a theme of this book?

6. Why were people interested in growing sugar in Florida? Is this a valid reason? Why or why not?

7. Describe the effects of the hurricane that hit Florida in 1926. How does this foreshadow Florida's future?

8. What were the effects of the Yellow Fever epidemic? How have such epidemics been seen and dealt with in our own time?

9. How did the ending of the Civil War affect Florida?

10. Migrant workers were important to Florida agriculture. Why? Are they as important today? Why or why not?

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