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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 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 statement best describes human settlement in Florida before Europeans arrived?

  • The region was uninhabitable until railroads arrived
  • Indigenous peoples had lived there for thousands of years
  • The first residents arrived only after 1845
  • No people lived there before 1513
Correct answer(s):
  • Indigenous peoples had lived there for thousands of years

Which Indigenous people were historically associated with parts of northern and central Florida?

  • Inca
  • Timucua
  • Navajo of the Southwest
  • Haudenosaunee of New York
Correct answer(s):
  • Timucua

Where did Calusa communities develop in Florida?

  • Far northern Alaska
  • Colorado’s Rocky Mountains
  • Southern and southwestern Florida
  • The Great Lakes islands
Correct answer(s):
  • Southern and southwestern Florida

Which statement about Seminole and Miccosukee peoples is accurate today?

  • They existed only before European contact
  • They all disappeared by 1845
  • Their communities existed only in western Canada
  • They maintain living cultural connections to Florida
Correct answer(s):
  • They maintain living cultural connections to Florida

Who led a documented Spanish expedition to Florida in 1513?

  • James Cook
  • Juan Ponce de León
  • Meriwether Lewis
  • Hernán Cortés in 1845
Correct answer(s):
  • Juan Ponce de León

Why is St. Augustine historically notable?

  • It was founded after the Civil War
  • It is the oldest continuously occupied European-founded settlement in the continental U.S.
  • It became the U.S. capital in 1776
  • It was the first human settlement in North America
Correct answer(s):
  • It is the oldest continuously occupied European-founded settlement in the continental U.S.