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Final Exam
End of the Year Test
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History
8th Grade
06/02/2008

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Term
What industry changed growth of East & Central in Modern Flordia?
Definition
Space
Term
What is now Florida's largest industry?
Definition
Tourism
Term
Who is Florida's top trading partner?
Definition
Brazil
Term
Who found Florida and what country did he claim it for?
Definition
Ponce De Leon, Spain
Term
How many people does Florida have living in it today?
Definition
More than 16 million
Term
Who led a large expedition into Florida and took them from the Florida coast into Georgia, and eventually explored Mississippi River?
Definition
Hernando De Soto
Term
Who and when founded St. Augustine?
Definition
Menendez, September 8, 1565
Term
Who attacked British forts, including Pensacola?
Definition
Bernardo De Galvez
Term
Who journeyed from England and in what year to attack Spanish settlements including St. Augustine?
Definition
Francis Drake
Term
What two countries were allies in the War of 1812?
Definition
Spain and Great Britian
Term
Who moved into Florida and seized what two cities?
Definition
Andrew Jackson, Pensacola & St. Marks
Term
In what treaty did Spain ceced Florida to the United States?
Definition
Adams-Onis Treaty
Term
Who became President and declared his intention to move all Native Americans to where?
Definition
Andrew Jackson, Great Plains
Term
What Indians didn't want to give up their homes and refused to move?
Definition
Seminoles
Term
Who was the Seminole leader who was captured during the 1st Seminole leader?
Definition
Osceola
Term
What Seminole Indian war was the longest, bloodiest, and most expensive?
Definition
The Second Seminole Indian War (1835-1842)
Term
What number state was Florida admitted as?
Definition
27th state
Term
What year was Florida admitted tot the Union?
Definition
1845
Term
What other state was Florida admitted with to keep the balance between slave and free states maintained?
Definition
Iowa
Term
Florida joined the other southern states to form what?
Definition
The Confederate States of America
Term
What did Florida supply to the Confederate rebel soldiers during the Civil War?
Definition
Beef and other foods
Term
Who controlled some towns and forts in Florida mainly along the costal regions?
Definition
Union
Term
Who controlled Central Florida?
Definition
Confederacy
Term
Who set up the Freedman's Bureau?
Definition
Andrew Johnson
Term
What put curfews and travel restrictions on blacks and were passed by Southern whites?
Definition
Black Codes
Term
Who was President after Abraham Lincoln and in what year?
Definition
Andrew Johnson, 1865
Term
What were passed by the radical republicans?
Definition
Reconstruction Acts
Term
What did the Reconstruction Acts allow whites to do?
Definition
Vote
Term
The Southern whites resented the Northerners known as what who wanted to make a fast buck in the South?
Definition
Carpetbaggers
Term
In what year did what act restore voting rights to former Confederate soldiers, allowing whites to regain control?
Definition
1870, Amnesty Act
Term
In what year did Reconstruction end?
Definition
1877
Term
What is the separation of races called
Definition
Segregation
Term
What are three industries that helped Florida's economy prosper?
Definition
Lumber, Cattle Ranching, Citrus production
Term
What created the first major transportation system in the Southeast?
Definition
Henry Plant
Term
What built railroad lines along the Atlantic Coast?
Definition
Henry Flagler
Term
What American battleship exploded in Havana harbor?
Definition
U.S.S. Maine
Term
Florida became the site for much of the action before and during what war?
Definition
Spanish-American War
Term
What woman worked for education rights for African-Americans in Florida?
Definition
Mary McLeod Bethune
Term
What did the 15th amendment establish?
Definition
Black voting rights
Term
What did the 14th amendment guaranteed?
Definition
Full citizenship
Term
What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?
Definition
To help white people regain political and social dominance
Term
The separation between races would become more rigid with the passing of what laws?
Definition
Jim Crow Laws
Term
Ulysses. S. Grant was elected to his first term in what year?
Definition
1868
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