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What does international migration measure?

  • Changes in household size from births
  • Movement only between Florida counties
  • Movement between Jacksonville neighborhoods
  • Movement between Florida and other countries
Correct answer(s):
  • Movement between Florida and other countries

What does domestic migration measure in Florida?

  • Moves between Florida and other countries
  • Moves between Florida and other U.S. states
  • Natural changes in birth rate
  • Daily commuting within one city only
Correct answer(s):
  • Moves between Florida and other U.S. states

What is the formula for population density?

  • Population multiplied by coastline length
  • Land area divided by GDP
  • Population divided by land area
  • Births minus deaths
Correct answer(s):
  • Population divided by land area

How is a metropolitan area typically defined?

  • Any two neighboring states
  • A region containing no commuters
  • Only the legally incorporated downtown
  • A core urban area with economically connected surrounding communities
Correct answer(s):
  • A core urban area with economically connected surrounding communities

Which residents are included in a city-proper population figure?

  • All people living within 200 miles
  • Everyone in its entire state
  • Only people employed downtown
  • People within its incorporated limits
Correct answer(s):
  • People within its incorporated limits

What is a decennial Census count?

  • A monthly estimate made from tourism bookings
  • A projection of next year’s GDP
  • A population enumeration conducted every ten years
  • An annual unemployment survey only
Correct answer(s):
  • A population enumeration conducted every ten years

Which developments helped make Florida’s postwar housing growth possible?

  • Air conditioning and improved highways
  • A ban on air travel
  • The removal of all electrical networks
  • Glacial melting and mountain tunnels
Correct answer(s):
  • Air conditioning and improved highways

What increased Florida’s military and aviation importance in the 1940s?

  • The American Revolution
  • The War of 1812
  • World War II
  • The Korean War of 1950 only
Correct answer(s):
  • World War II

How did expanding railroads affect Florida during its development?

  • They connected communities with markets and travelers
  • They eliminated the need for ports
  • They stopped all migration
  • They turned wetlands into mountains
Correct answer(s):
  • They connected communities with markets and travelers

What is an accurate description of Florida after Reconstruction?

  • Equal rights were immediately guaranteed in practice for everyone
  • The state no longer had elections
  • Segregation ended before the Civil War
  • Racial discrimination and civil-rights struggles continued
Correct answer(s):
  • Racial discrimination and civil-rights struggles continued

What was a major legal consequence of emancipation after the Civil War?

  • Florida immediately became an independent nation
  • Voting rights were equally enforced everywhere immediately
  • All property ownership was abolished
  • Slavery lost its legal basis
Correct answer(s):
  • Slavery lost its legal basis

Which side did Florida join during the American Civil War?

  • The French colonial alliance
  • The British Empire
  • The Union as a free state
  • The Confederacy
Correct answer(s):
  • The Confederacy

What labor system supported plantation agriculture in antebellum North Florida?

  • Automated factory robots
  • An all-volunteer school system
  • A fully mechanized wheat economy
  • Enslaved African American labor
Correct answer(s):
  • Enslaved African American labor

Was Florida admitted to the Union before or after the American Civil War began?

  • Before the Civil War
  • During World War I
  • After World War II
  • After Reconstruction ended
Correct answer(s):
  • Before the Civil War

What happened to some Seminole people despite nineteenth-century removal policies?

  • They ceased to have any communities
  • They remained in Florida
  • They established the first U.S. state capital
  • All moved voluntarily to Europe
Correct answer(s):
  • They remained in Florida

What issue was central to the Seminole Wars in Florida?

  • Trade conflicts with Canada
  • U.S. expansion and Indigenous resistance to removal
  • A dispute over the Apollo program
  • Competition for Atlantic whale fisheries
Correct answer(s):
  • U.S. expansion and Indigenous resistance to removal

Why was Tallahassee selected as a territorial capital between earlier centers?

  • The cities were connected by a high-speed railway
  • Travel between Pensacola and St. Augustine was difficult
  • It was already Florida’s largest city
  • It was Florida’s only seaport
Correct answer(s):
  • Travel between Pensacola and St. Augustine was difficult