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The government limited, or _______________the amount of food and supplies that a person could purchase during the Great Depression.
a) rationed
b) got rid of
c) supplied
d) gave

A _________________ is a time when business activity is slow and many people were unemployed.
a) recession
b) depression
c) sale
d) opression

Shares ,or portions, or ownership in companies are called ________.
a) money
b) bonds
c) stocks
d) all of the above

When you sell something for less money than you bought it for it is called a __________.
a) loan
b) sale
c) profit
d) loss

______________ become home to the Navy's first flight school during World War I.
a) Pensacola
b) Tallahassee
c) Tampa
d) Ybor City

Some people took advantage of people buying land without seeing it and often sold them land that was under water. This was joked about by calling it ____________________.
a) lakes
b) land by the gallon
c) ponds
d) cheap

___________ _____________ created St. Petersburg as a town by making it the last stop of his railroad, Orange Belt Railway.
a) Carl Fisher
b) William Gilbreath
c) Peter Demens
d) Johnny Blanding

The Dixie Highway was built to link Florida to the states in the Midwest beginning in 1915 by firends _____________ and _____________.
a) Henry Flagler and Jose Ybor
b) Peter Demens and William Gilbreath
c) Carl Fisher and Peter Demens
d) Carl Fisher and William Gilbreath

The ____________ was the party of President Roosevelt's 'New Deal that hired artists and actors to create and perform plays in their communities.
a) Work Progress Administration
b) Civilian Conservation Committee
c) Farm Security Administration
d) None of the above

The main uses of _________________ one of Florida's largest military bases during World War II, was to train troops and hold prisoners of war.
a) Camp Augustine
b) Camp Blanding
c) Camp Germain
d) Camp Florida

Most of the prisoners of war at Camp Blanding were from _______ and _______.
a) Germany and Austria
b) Germany and Poland
c) Italy and Poland
d) Italy and Germany

The children of World War II helped the home front by volunteering to collect __________________ to recycle.
a) rubber
b) cans
c) grease
d) all of the above

Floridians were ordered to turn off their lights so that ______ ______ would not see the U.S. ships
a) German planes
b) German subs
c) war ships
d) None of the above

David McCampbell was the first American to receive the _____ of ______ during World War II.
a) Medal of Life
b) Line of Duty
c) Medal of Honor
d) None of the above

Thousands of workers in the Florida citrus industry lost their jobs because of the __________ _____________ _____
a) Mediterranean Fruit Flies
b) Great Freeze
c) Subterranean Fruit Flies
d) All of the above

Many norther newcomers withdrew their money from the bank and fled back north after a hurricane tore through Florida, causing many banks to ______.
a) open
b) succeed
c) fail
d) None of the above

Cars contributed to Florida's land boom in the 1920's by making it ________ to travel.
a) free
b) harder
c) impossible
d) easier

When the demand for land began to drop as prices increased Florida's __________ came to an end in the 1920's.
a) land boom
b) land drop
c) land by the gallon
d) None of the above

Many people lost their jobs and many families had to leave their homes to find work during the ___________.
a) Land Boom
b) Great Depression
c) Great Freeze
d) War

After Japan bombed a naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii the US joined Great Britain, France, and ____________.
a) United States
b) United Kingdom
c) Germany
d) Soviet Union

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