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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Maps were needed for the new territory. Who is appointed in the north?

3. Who helps James Hogg by arranging to have a vessel sent north to transport James and his family?

4. Grants that are given are revocable unless _____________ of the land was populated within three years with one person for every hundred acres.

5. In the years before the Revolution, there were at least thirty-eight colonial merchant firms dealing in what nationality of servants?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are servants paid?

2. Why is a network formed between those in Great Britain and those in the American colonies?

3. What does the author say about the intelligence part of this network?

4. What does the Register record about the major part of migration and and the migration of families?

5. Why is the location of a servant sale important to buyers?

6. Why is the location of a servant sale important to sellers?

7. Who is James Hogg? What does he try to do? Does he succeed?

8. What is the importance of New York during this time?

9. What efforts have been made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of Florida and the gulf and river shores of Mississippi and Alabama?

10. What is one way that West Florida differs from East Florida? Is this good? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some grantees have problems when the American Revolution begins.

Part 1) What is a grantee? Why would the American Revolution cause problems?

Part 2) How were the other settlers affected by the American Revolution?

Part 3) Does the information in this book give any insight into causes and consequences of the American Revolution? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Land speculators are important in the selling of land.

Part 1) What is a land speculator? How are they important?

Part 2) What would the colonies have been like without land speculators? Could the colonies have expanded without land speculators? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person would make a good land speculator? What qualities would one need to be successful?

Essay Topic 3

London becomes a magnet for those seeking work and those seeking workers.

Part 1) London became a magnet fro those seeking work and those seeking workers?

Part 2) What connection does this supply and demand create between London and the colonies?

Part 3) How does this urban metropolis affect those in the Americas?

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