Florida History Exam

Wright Brothers

Freed slave- mailman that delivered the mail from Titusville to Malabar and Grant

Ernest Kouwen-Hoven

Built first wooden bridge across the IRL to make Indialantic

Adams-Onis

Florida is now part of the U.S

March 3, 1845

statehood

Disney political front

Reedy Creek

sheet flow

shallow water runoff

destination for all water flowing through everglades

Florida Bay

Leader of black education from Daytona Beach

Mary Mcloud Bethune

7 mile bridge

Connects Marathon to Little Duck Key

There are two wonderful months in Florida...

Hemingway

"Drain the Everglades"

Napolean Bonaparte Broward

Leroy Collins

Florida governor that fought to keep schools open during civil rights movement

Lancelot Jones

Grew Key limes on porgy key

Ernest Coe

Moved from Conneticut to Miami- life's work on National park

Juanita Green

journalist for Miami Herald that wrote abt everglades

Lloyd Miller

environmental activist for Biscayne Bay/Everglades

The truth is everything- every painting, every song, every movie comes out of something that precedes it. It's a chain

Connectdedness

Our past is the glue that connects us

Communities of Memory

We learn about people who live and have lived responsible, interesting, and joyful lives

Conceptions of character

The miracle of light...It is a river of grass

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

"It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, not bought"

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

May 25, 1961

Kennedy moon anouncement

OG mercury astronauts

Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton (2 c’s, 2 g’s, 3 s’s)

Grant Seafood Festival

Feb./March

George Melendez Wright

National Park head

John Lacey Bird and Game Act

Protected against bird poachers

Antiquities Act of 1906

Federal lands could be designated as national monuments- (Biscayne Bay)

Fort in Keys

Ft. Jefferson

Atocha location

Marquesas

Devestating Hurricanes on Lake Okeechobee led to...

Man made retention ponds and dikes

The Hurricane Monument is located near where the Hurricane of 1935 made landfall at

Islamorada

Longest river in florida/runs North

St Johns

lots of water 4 GA

Apalachicola River

Suwanee River

State song (Old folks at home)

Caloosahatchee and St. Lucy River

Water flushed out of Okeechobee

Kisimee River

Feeds Everglades

Perdido River

FL + Alabama boundary

St. Mary's River

Northern Border w/Fl + GA

Highway connecting Tampa and Miami

Tamiami River

I4

Tampa to Daytona

Political Refugees

Cubans

Economic refugees

Haitains

Cuban Adjustment Act

allowed cubans to earn residency in the US

Fastest growing Latino group

Puerto Ricans

Made up 50% of florida's population in 1900s

African-Americans

Martinez Ybor

Cuban cigar maker

Jose Marti

Wrote guantanamera and led the fight for cuban independence

Mario Sanchez

Cuban folk artist in Key West that lived in Gato village

Mariel Boat lift 1980

Cuban refugees came to America

Early exiles were mostly successful business professionals, doctors

Cubans

Desperately Poor, many are illegal

Haitains

Bethune-Cookman

Private Black College in Daytona

Fled Castro's Revolution

Cubans

Between 1960 and 2000, over 1 million came to South Florida

Cubans

Most are employed in low wage, unskilled work

Haitans

Name derived from Spanish word for runaway

Seminoles

Southernmost town in Brevard County

Micco, Barefoot Bay

Northernmost town in Brevard County

Scottsmoore

Birthplace of Zora Neale Hurtson

Notasulga, Alabama

Ponce De Leon

Discovered and named Florida

First governor of Florida

Andrew Jackson

Black educator and businessman who pushed for better schools for Melbourne's Black population

Mary Mcleod Bethune

CR Johnson

Melbourne Blacksmith who spent his retirement as Mel High's custodian, dean, and bus driver

Biscayne National Park was created largely through the efforts of

Lancelot Jones, Juanita Greene, Lloyd Miller

Pedro Menendez

Founded St. Augustine

Richard Goode and his family

Among the first white settlers in Melbourne

B. Frank Brown

Pioneer educator whose reforms made Melbourne High School nationally known in the 1960's

Rufus Beaujean

Owned and operated the ferry service to Melbourne Beach before a bridge was built

State tree FL

Sabal Palm

State flower FL

orange blossom

The original 1-story hospital was located on _____ until 1962

US1

Mill

1/1000 of a dollar

The Belcelona

Florida air academy once was this hotel

Apollo 1

Astronauts blew up

Apollo 11

first moon mission

Which mercury 7 astronaut had to navigate his own way back home?

John Glenn

"light this candle"

Alan Shepard

Hemingway Hurrican Months

August-October

Conch Republic

April 23, 1982, Florida Keys seceded from the US

Atochas value

go with biggest answer

Patrick Smith

Author: a land remembered

Honest John

Legendary florida cracker and fisherman

Where did the Allmann Brothers Grow up?

Daytona

Where did the Lynyrd Skynyrd band grow up?

Jacksonville

Event that greatly strengthened the national government and weakened state power (1861-1865)

The Civil War

Willie Green

Blues singer from cross creek

Cap on property value assesements annual increase

3%

The florida constitution also prohibits estate, inheritance, and ____ taxes

Income

Big Cypress Swamp

1 million acres of the western Everglades- has many of the surviving Florida Panthers

Birds found in Everglades

Ibis, Heron, Egret

Found in freshwater

Alligators

Found in saltwater and freshwater

Crocodiles

Joe Browder and Nathaniel Reed

protected the Big cypress swamp, enlisted support of all of the above, including Miccosukee tribe

Who wrote "Lochloosa is on my mind"

JJ Grey

Who wrote Seminole Wind?

John Anderson

Song Played at UF Games

Won't back down

leading spokesperson for Everglades as a reporter for the Miami Herald, later writing a book called "River of Grass"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

IRL inlets

Port Canaveral, Jupiter, Sebastian Inlet, Fort Pierce Inlet, and St. Lucie Inlet

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Banned literacy tests and aimed to establish voting equality

Bush v Gore 2000

partial recount of FL votes chose pres.