draining the Everglades - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

This project was enthusiastically promoted by governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, who would often say “look at Holland” when discussing the “empire” it could create. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this reclamation project that was strongly opposed by conservationists led by Ernest Coe. It enabled a massive speculative land boom from 1924 to 1926. Description acceptable.

ANSWER: draining the Everglades [accept answers that refer to developing the Everglades, or reducing the size of the Everglades, or removing water from the Everglades]

[10e] This politician names a dike built to control Lake Okeechobee after much of the Everglades was drained. Another infrastructure project named for this politician created Lake Mead along the Colorado River.

ANSWER: Herbert Hoover [accept Herbert Hoover Dike or Hoover Dam]

[10m] In 1925, this man moved south to sell deeds to the reclaimed Everglades, but the deeds he sold were actually for worthless upstate swampland. One of this man’s earlier plans involved the resale of international postal coupons.

ANSWER: Charles Ponzi

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	11	20.00	91%	73%	36%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Binghamton	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	RIT A	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Duke A (UG)	10	10	0	20
GWU A (UG)	JMU B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Maryland B (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	10	30
JMU A (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Liberty C (DII)	UNC D (DII)	0	10	10	20
William & Mary A (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	10	10	30
UNC B (UG)	Maryland A (Grad)	10	0	10	20
Virginia A (UG)	UNC C (UG)	0	10	10	20
Virginia B (UG)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	Iowa A	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Michigan State A	0	10	10	20
Rice A	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Sorbonne	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M A	UW A	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M B	Appalachian State	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Kenyon	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Haverford	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins	John Jay	0	10	0	10
NYU A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Penn	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Rowan	0	10	10	20
Sheffield	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Geodesic	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama	0	10	0	10
MTSU	Harding	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee	0	10	0	10