FLORIDA HISTORY FINAL EXAM
R. ZIEGLER
FMU/NORTH ORLANDO CAMPUS
CH 13-22

Part I

__1. John Milton
__2. Thomas W. Osborn
__3. Henry Bradley Plant
__4. Vicente Martinez Ybor
__5. M. L. Sterns
__6. Albertus Vogt
__7. Thomas Edison
__8. William Chipley
__9. John Cocoris
__10. Wilkerson Call
__11. Jonathan Gibbs
__12. Harrison Reed
__13. Josiah T. Wells
__14. Manuel Alzendorf
__15. John T. Sprague
__16. Madison Perry
__17. Hamilton Disston
__18. James McKay
__19. John J. Dickison
__20. Toussaint L'Ouverture
__21. Henry Morrison Flagler
__22. Stephan Mallory
__23. David S. Walker
__24. Peter Demens
__25. Michael Mullin
__26. Dred Scott

Part II

__1. Freedmen's Bureau
__2. sharecropping
__3. poll tax
__4. debt pass
__5. Compromise of 1877
__6. Natural Bridge
__7. carpetbaggers
__8. scalawags
__9. The Breakers
__10. popular sovereignty
__11. anaconda plan
__12. Fort Taylor
__13. Cedar Key
__14. Olustee
__15. nativism
__16. mosquito control and air conditioning
__17. County Democratic Clubs
__18. Frederick DeBary
__19. boll weevil
__20. Great Migration
__21. Diaspora
__22. Ocala Platform
__23. Redemption
__24. Key West Overseas Railroad
__25. Spanish American War
__26. Tohopekaliga

Part III

__1. Muck Bowl
__2. bimini boats
__3. Sidney Catts
__4. open crime city
__5. Miami Herald
__6. state income tax
__7. Dave Davis
__8. William Sherman Jennings
__9. George Merrick
__10. Tin Can Tourists
__11. Two Floridas
__12. Rum Run
__13. land bust
__14. Lake Okeechobee
__15. John Collins
__16. juke joints
__17. Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
__18. Post WWI Land Boom
__19. pork chop gang
__20. Rosewood
__21. Harry T. Moore
__22. Ocoee
__23. strawberry schools
__24. Smith vs. Allwright
__25. J.F. Jaudon
__26. Eisenhower


Part IV

__1. Dr. Phillips
__2. LeRoy Collins
__3. Henry Sanford 
__4. Claude Pepper
__5. David Farragut
__6. Connie Mack
__7. Foraker Act
__8. World War II
__9.  St Augustine
__10. Great Elongation
__11. reapportionment
__12. 1903
__13. Voting Rights Act of 1965
__14. Elian Gonzalez
__15. truck farming
__16. Sandinistas
__17. Doyle Carlton
__18. Eatonville
__19. Brown vs Bd of Education
__20. fiscal federalism
__21. CORE
__22. Civil Rights Act of 1964
__23. Cuban Adjustment Act
__24.  Sunbelt
__25. Jacksonville
__26. Papa Doc Duvalier
__27. I-4 Corridor
__28. Jones Act
__29. Zora Neale Hurston
__30. Platt Amendment
__31. Jim Crow
__32. Claude Kirk
__33. Gideon



Answers

Part I

a. his study argued that slavery in Florida was not as harsh as it
was in the Caribbean islands or British colonies
b. free black barber and turtle fisher in early Florida
c. led a successful slave revolt in Haiti that caused many
whites in Florida to begin to fear uprisings because of the black majority here
d. Roger Taney wrote this Supreme Court decision in 1857 which held slaves were property and had not rights
e.  governor who led Florida to secession
f.  Confederate Secretary of the Navy; only Southern cabinet
official from Florida
g.  Floridian who ran the Union blockade smuggling cattle to Cuba
h. the 'War Eagle' who commanded a mobile force that moved
up and down the interior of Florida to fend off Union attacks
i.  Florida governor who was so disheartened that the South lost
that he killed himself
j. elected Governor after Civil War by planter aristocracy and
tried to limit the rights of freedmen, but was quickly displaced by the Reconstruction
government
k. former slave who became Florida's Secretary of State and Commissioner of Education during Reconstruction
l.  'carpetbagger' governor who alienated radical republicans
for seeking to let former confederates to vote and democrats by working to increase
the black vote
m.  black Union veteran from Virginia elected to Congress from
Florida
n. head of Florida Freedman's Bureau; organized massive
food effort for the freed slaves, and some attempt to get them their own land
o. assistant in charge of black voter registration for the Freedman's Bureau of Florida
p. Republican Reconstruction Governor who fought to get Florida's
electoral votes to Hayes in 1876 by counting the black vote
q. he pulled off the purchase of 4 million acres of land in Florida
for $ 1 million on what seems to have been his charm, and drained huge areas between Kissimmee and Okeechobee, opening it for farming including his sugar
cane industry.
r. set up shop near Ft Myers and built the first swimming pool in Florida
s.  in west Florida, he had a knack for buying up bankrupt railroads and making them profitable by improving rate schedules and rolling stock,
and connected the panhandle to east Florida and northbound railroads
t. his Sanford to Tampa Bay railroad opened the area to
citrus farming and began to build Tampa as a major port
u. built the railroad down the east coast of Florida, eventually all the way to Key West, starting Palm Beach and Miami to grow
as vacation and the settlements in the process.
v. the Duke of Denellon -- phosphate industry
w.  populist who worked with small farmers and got Florida
Railroad Commission set up to stop unfair rate practices
x. his Orange Belt railroad put St Pete on the map, but
OBT runs along its route; he also built it south down Gulf coast
y. started sponge diving industry in what is Tarpon Springs
z. began large scale influx of Cubans into Tampa Bay
to work in cigar industry

Part II

a.  from the Kansas Nebraska Act, it was the doctrine that
each state should determing whether or not to have slavery within its territory
b.  Lincoln strategy to strangle the South with a naval blockade
c. Key West naval base and main reason the island never 'left' the
Union even though Florida seceeded
d. was major port of gulf coast until Plant and Demens' railroads to
Tampa Bay area
e. when Union General Truman Seymour marched west from Jacksonville, Georgia and Florida volunteers stopped him just east of Lake City,
keeping the railroad into Georgia operative
f.  when Union troops attached Tallahassee in the winter of 1864,
they were halted at this battle, and never took the capital although Florida was cut
off from the rest of the South
g.  northerners who came to the South in the aftermath of the
Civil War to help rebuild it and sometimes to build personal fortunes by taking
advantage of the opportunity
h.  southerners who worked with Reconstruction governments
i.  white supremist groups that ran rampant in rural Florida during Reconstruction and eventually formed into the KKK
j.  set up to help freed slaves, set up schools, provide
food relief, and sometimes land and seed
k. system of tenant farming that replaced slavery in which
former slaves paid rent for land they farmed to the owner in the form of a part of the
crop they eventually would harvest
l.  $2 you had to pay to register to vote in Florida
m.  local black code that restricted movement of sharecroppers who
owed money
n.  elected Hayes President; ended Reconstruction;
involved vote irregularities in Florida
o. the recapturing of political and economic control by southern
whites, often former confederates, after Reconstruction
p. the Kissimmee lake that fell 8 feet when Disston completed
his dredging and canal digging
q. Flagler's huge Palm Beach hotel
r.  Flagler's railroad to Key West heavily damaged
by the storm of 1926
s.  massive movement of especially black sharecroppers from
the south to the urban centers of the north, east, and west
t. its destruction of the cotton crop 'freed' the sharecroppers
u.  the dispersal of Africans across north and south America
v. Populist statement calling for government regulation of the
railroads, silver expansion of the money supply, direct election of US senators,
a graduated income tax on the rich, and jim crow laws passed at a barn convention
held in 1890 in central Florida
w.  anti-foreign sentiment that grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
x.  steamships up the St John's as far as Lakes Monroe and Jessup
y.  in 1898 US took Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain, but the war sparked Florida's growth because so much of
the operations went through the state
z.  these developments opened Florida
to development and population growth

Part III

a. governor elected on platform of expanding state
government, developing more schools, draining the Everglades to create more farm
land, but also championed Jim Crow
b. gun runner during Spanish American War who
got elected Governor as a firebrand against the old power structure, but began the
first state university system, a railroad regulatory board, and a corrupt practices act.
c. elected Governor on populist/progressive program but also nativism, anti-catholicism, and anti-black rhetoric, drove to Tallahassee in model T,
but was constrained in carrying out his programs by the outbreak of World War I.
d. because of lowered taxes to encourage business,
there was an influx of middle-aged, middle class Americans with families to take
advantage of cheap available land
e. in 1922, real estate made it the heaviest newspaper in the country
f.  in 1924, the state legislature prohibited this and any inheritance tax
g. dredged two mud islands at entrance of Hillsborough River in
Tampa Bay and developed an entire community suburb on them
h. teamed with the founder of the Indianapolis Speedway and
built a causeway and began development of Miami Beach
i. designed the suburb of Coral Gables on 1100 acres of citrus,
an entire working city with underground wires and strict architectural rules; including the University of Miami
j. less affluent tourists who came in cars loaded with tents
and supplies; cities built campgrounds for them; motels developed to service them
k.  Tamiami Trail
l.  bootlegging from Nassau and Grand Bahama Island
m. large cargo speedboats to detect and avoid the Coast Guard
running illegal boos into Florida
n. what Al Capone called Miami, his winter home
o. marshy terrain around Okeechobee drained some in 1920's
leading to increased farming and an influx of migrant workers from deep South,
Mexico, and Caribbean
p. small taverns and dance halls for the migrant farmers with a
coin operated music box
q.  real estate values began to collapse in 1925, leaving cities heavily
in debt, and the economy in crisis
r.  the hurricane of 1926 caused this to flood and kill 2000 people
s.  black citizens who tried to vote were attacked and their homes burned 11/2/20
t.  infamous attack on a black community southwest of Gainesville in 1923
u.  Florida NAACP leader, very active in registering black people
to vote, killed when his home was bombed in 1950
v. built the interstates, started NASA, and otherwise helped spark
Florida development
w.  as Florida developed, especially after World War II, there was an
increasingly sharp division between the old south northern part and the much more
diverse southern part
x. 1944 case which prohibited white primaries
y. let out so children of blacks and migrants could help
bring in the crops
z. alliance of north Florida legislators who manuveured to hold
onto control of Florida government as the population grew and its center shifted south; they also pushed Jim Crow.

Part IV

a. his appeal of his conviction won the Supreme Court mandate of court appointed legal representation for anyone who cannot afford it
b. among his reforms as governor was reapportionment
c.  first Republican Governor of Florida since Reconstruction in 1966
d. south Florida congressman and senators who for decades
championed the cause of the large number of retired people living in Florida
e.  laws and customs of segregation
f.  former Florida US Senator whose family came out of baseball
g. black writer who was born in Eatonville
h.  probably more than any other factor, this sparked the beginning
of the growth and development of modern Florida
i.  rapidly growing area of central Florida between Daytona and Tampa
j. Milton Friedman's term for the Depression, on the fact that
government policies of the New Deal made it worse and last longer by increasing
government borrowing and taxation.
k.  north Orlando black community, one of Florida's oldest
l. automobile racing began on the hard flat sand at Daytona
m. 1966 making Cuban refugees who had escaped Castro to come to Florida legal residents of the US and paved the way for their citizenship
n.  Clinton adminstration sent this young boy whose mother died
bringing him out of Cuba back to Cuba -- this act was a deciding factor in the 2000
election for President and the 2002 Democrat gubernatorial primary election
o. Haitian dictator whose tyranny forced many to leave for Florida
p. communist regime in Nicaragua from which many people fled
to Florida to escape
q. people began moving to this area of the country in massive numbers
from the old colder weather formerly heavily industrialized areas of the north and east
r. court mandates to redraw election districts altered the balance
of power in Florida from the old north to the growing central and south areas of the state
s. 1954 Supreme Court decision which ruled segregation wrong and unconstitutional
t.  Nixon administration policy accomplished through federal aid
requiring desegregation of schools what the confrontation and troops of JFK and LBJ
had not begun to succeed in doing in the South
u. Martin Luther King led demonstrations and protests against
segregation and discrimination here in 1964
v.  prohibited discrimination in public facilities and
accomodations
w. federal registrars are sent into counties with large
populations of unregistered minority citizens
x.  early depression governor who launched legalized gambling
in Florida
y. large sections of the city were destroyed in 1901
z. vegetable agriculture in south Florida
aa. organized sit-in in Miami as early as 1959
bb.  1923 act making Puerto Ricans US citizens
cc.  Puerto Rico would remain an Amerian Commonwealth
dd.  US would make Cuba independent and guarantee democracy there
ee.  Hispanic American Civil War Union Naval Commander
ff.  orange groves on Lake Monroe and railroad to Kissimmee
gg. his orange business became the basis for a very successful
orange soda business



90-111    A
80-89     B
70-79     C
60-69     D