Q 01/05

In which year did Tallahassee become the capital of the Florida Territory?

A) 1824

B) 1836

C) 1826

D) 1845

Answer · why

A) 1824

The third legislative session met there in a crude log building; Florida had only become a US territory in 1821.

Q 02/05

Why was Tallahassee chosen as the territorial capital?

A) It had the territory's only deep-water port

B) Andrew Jackson owned land there

C) It was the largest town in the territory

D) It was roughly halfway between Pensacola and St. Augustine

Answer · why

D) It was roughly halfway between Pensacola and St. Augustine

Delegates from St. Augustine had needed 59 days by water to reach the first session in Pensacola, so a midpoint was agreed.

Q 03/05

The name Tallahassee is a Muskogean word usually translated as what?

A) Red hills

B) High ground

C) Old fields

D) Many springs

Answer · why

C) Old fields

Creek migrants likely used it for the cleared land an earlier people had left behind; the Creek and later refugees became the Seminole.

Q 04/05

Which Spanish explorer's expedition wintered at Anhaica, in present-day Tallahassee, in 1539–40?

A) Pánfilo de Narváez

B) Juan Ponce de León

C) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

D) Hernando de Soto

Answer · why

D) Hernando de Soto

Archaeologist B. Calvin Jones located the camp in 1987, about half a mile east of today's Capitol.

Q 05/05

The De Soto encampment is often called the first place in the continental US to celebrate what?

A) Christmas

B) Easter

C) New Year's Day

D) Thanksgiving

Answer · why

A) Christmas

The site sits about half a mile east of today's Capitol.