What better way to celebrate the U.S.\u2019s 250th birthday than with a quiz?<\/p>\n
Florida is often colloquially referred to as the 14th colony. Why? We won\u2019t spoil it up here, but you can find the answer in one of the answerexplanations below.<\/p>\n
Questions were provided by the Dunedin History Museum and the Tampa Bay History Center.<\/p>\n
Can you answer these 10 questions about Florida during the time of the American Revolution?<\/p>\n
1. Florida is the __ state to join the union?<\/p>\n
2. Spain occupied Florida for over two centuries, but some may not know that the British also ruled the territory, beginning in 1763. How long did British rule of Florida last?<\/p>\n
3. What was the capital of the former colony East Florida in 1776?<\/p>\n
4. True or false: St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.<\/p>\n
5. What was the capital of former colony West Florida in 1776?<\/p>\n
6. True or false: The colonies of East and West Florida remained loyal to the British Crown throughout the revolution.<\/p>\n
7. Spain captured what Florida city during the American Revolution?<\/p>\n
8. What Indigenous Florida group allied with the British during the American Revolution?<\/p>\n
9. True or false: East and West Florida remained British colonies after the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
10. Spain ceded Florida to the United States in what treaty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What better way to celebrate the U.S.\u2019s 250th birthday than with a quiz? Florida is often colloquially referred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,21695,30,29,35258],"class_list":["post-327214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-city","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-west-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}