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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 selling alcohol.
(b) By selling Indian souvenirs.
(c) By capturing birds and selling them to Havana.
(d) By capturing wild animals and selling them to zoos and circuses.

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

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

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

5. Port ________________ became a good, increasingly important port.
(a) Tampa.
(b) Canaveral.
(c) Miami.
(d) Everglades.

6. The rowing of _______________ became more important in 1960.
(a) Corn.
(b) Sugar cane.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wheat.

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

8. The government's policy now was to suppress the Indians and this was the job of Colonel __________.
(a) Williams.
(b) Worth.
(c) Wade.
(d) Wallace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________________ set up a company to obtain land grants in the Everglades.

2. Why did they want to grow sugar?

3. This was the _________ big archaeological find in the Everglades and provided knowledge about the prehistoric Glades people.

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

5. After the passage of the ___________________, the Everglades came under the control of the state of Florida.

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