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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How might garrisons and roads be created?
(a) The Spanish government is more likely to invest in these building projects.
(b) The Italian government is more likely to invest in these building projects.
(c) The Portuguese government is more likely to invest in these building projects.
(d) The French government is more likely to invest in these building projects.

2. What does the Register also record?
(a) The movement of families traveling to specific colonies.
(b) The movement of individuals traveling to specific colonies.
(c) The movement of families traveling to different parts of the colonies.
(d) The movement of individuals traveling to different parts of the colonies.

3. What is Jonas Brown's main business?
(a) The production and sale of pottery.
(b) Organizing emigration groups.
(c) Land speculation.
(d) The production and sale of alum.

4. What land is the most attractive in Nova Scotia?
(a) The land along the border with Canada.
(b) The land along the Hudson River.
(c) The land along the Bay of Fundy.
(d) The land along the Atlantic Ocean.

5. This colony and the adjacent islands totaled over how many square miles and had a population of less than 18,000 in early 1774?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 22,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 2,000.

6. What is the most valuable form of payment for a servant?
(a) Trade goods.
(b) Dollar bills.
(c) Checks.
(d) Bills of exchange payable on demand from well-known and financially stable British firms.

7. Detailed records connected to the Register are __________.
(a) Rare.
(b) Somewhat unusual.
(c) Plentiful.
(d) In abundance.

8. People came from all over the colonies to settle in West Florida, particularly from what region?
(a) Eastern South Carolina.
(b) Western North Carolina.
(c) Eastern North Carolina.
(d) Western South Carolina.

9. What does Brown's advertisement state?
(a) The ship would sail from London to North Carolina on August 1, 1774 and would take anyone wishing to settle in this area.
(b) The ship would sail from Whitby to Georgia on August 1, 1774 and would take anyone wishing to settle in this area.
(c) The ship would sail from Edinburgh to Georgia on August 1, 1774 and would take anyone wishing to settle in this area.
(d) The ship would sail from Glassgow to North Carolina on August 1, 1774 and would take anyone wishing to settle in this area.

10. 16 of these ships came from England and how many came from Scotland?
(a) 24.
(b) 13.
(c) 16.
(d) 31.

11. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?
(a) Gerard De Brahm.
(b) Samuel Holland.
(c) Seth Hammond.
(d) Gerry De Vane.

12. From the buyer's side, the longer he delayed the more likely what would happen?
(a) The prices would rise.
(b) The prices would stay the same.
(c) The prices would fall.
(d) The seller would get annoyed.

13. What is one way that West Florida differs from East Florida?
(a) The colony is adjacent to Spain's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(b) The colony is adjacent to Portugal's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(c) The colony is adjacent to Italy's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(d) The colony is adjacent to France's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.

14. Later investigations of West Florida would show what?
(a) The dangerous swampland.
(b) The wooded forests.
(c) The sandy and infertile beaches.
(d) The rich delta lands.

15. Where is a new British naval base and provincial capital built?
(a) At Vermont.
(b) At Halifax.
(c) At Quebec.
(d) At Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?

2. What is unique about James Hogg's departure for America?

3. How does communication between inland North Carolina and the Scottish Highlands remain strong?

4. How long had the connection between the Highlands and North Carolina been in place?

5. Besides not making money quickly, why else does a seller not want the "goods" to remain in his care?

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