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

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

3. ________________ purchased bankrupt Southern Railroads and planned a railroad from Sanford to Tampa.
(a) Harrison B. Root.
(b) Harry B. Seed.
(c) Henry B. Plant.
(d) Henri B. Arbor.

4. The Everglades still has problems, as does the rest of the area, because of what?
(a) The population.
(b) Erosion.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Cattle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first group of white men to ever cross the Everglades from east to west?

2. By __________ efforts were underway to correct the problems.

3. The man who dredged the first canal purchased four ___________ acres of swamp land west of Lake Okeechobee.

4. Indian Key and ______________ were the two most important settlements along the coast.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the dredging of the first canal. Why was it dredged? What effects might this have on Florida in the coming decades?

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

5. Why did Billy Bowlegs leave Florida? How might this reflect the feelings of many Indians in Florida at this time?

6. How did the sugar embargo in 1960 affect pollution in the Everglades? Could this have been prevented? If so, how? If not, why not?

7. How did Florida becoming a slave state affect those living in Florida?

8. What happened when Taylor retired? Why?

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

10. How did the Native Americans adapt to life in Florida after the Civil War? How does this reflect their ability to adapt throughout the settling of the Americas?

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