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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are merchants able to barter with overseers?
(a) The merchants barter with trade goods.
(b) The overseers are eager to unload their charges.
(c) They are willing to give the overseers a great deal of money.
(d) The overseers will steal from the merchants.

2. At almost any time during the spring and fall months, what happens to indentured servants' labor?
(a) It is sold in public houses.
(b) It is sold in private homes.
(c) It is sold on board the newly arrived vessels in the ports south of New England.
(d) It is sold prior to boarding a vessel for the colonies.

3. What is the name of the vessel used in all voyages from this village?
(a) The Marlborough.
(b) The Edinburgh.
(c) The Queen Mother.
(d) The Lucia.

4. How many departures does the Register show for West Florida between 1773 and 1776?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

5. What society was made up on 40 to 50 merchants, noblemen, and entrepreneurs who wanted to develop new properties in America?
(a) The Alabaman Society.
(b) The Mississippi Society.
(c) The East Florida Society.
(d) The West Florida Society.

6. Is large-scale land speculation new in North America?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Maybe.

7. Brown, his son, Thomas, and James Gordon embarked on what?
(a) A scheme to purchase their own colony.
(b) A sheme to open a pottery factory in North Carolina.
(c) A scheme to settle the Ceded Lands.
(d) A scheme to settle swamp land in Florida.

8. In 1772, what does De Brahm present to the King?
(a) A present.
(b) A special dinner.
(c) A large sum of money.
(d) A huge map.

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

10. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?
(a) The Hungarians.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Turks.

11. All those who voyaged to the American colonies were what?
(a) Young.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Poor.
(d) Risk takers.

12. 16 of these ships came from England and how many came from Scotland?
(a) 13.
(b) 24.
(c) 16.
(d) 31.

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

14. In the period before the American Revolution, what is the northeastern most point in the arc of borderlands in the outer boundaries of British communities in North America?
(a) Nova Scotia.
(b) Maine.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

15. How long had the connection between the Highlands and North Carolina been in place?
(a) Almost a century.
(b) Almost a quarter of a century.
(c) Almost a decade.
(d) Almost half a century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location would sellers avoid for holding sales?

2. Not only was the demand for labor high in the colonies, but there was a potentially plentiful supply of labor where?

3. In 1763, when almost all of the land east of the Mississippi River became the territory of what nation?

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

5. What is Jonas Brown's main business?

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