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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What made this form of payment difficult?
(a) The money may not be accepted everywhere.
(b) All banks may not cash the check.
(c) The bills may get lost.
(d) The seller has to estimate the worth of the trade goods.

3. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?
(a) It would become the land of the Native Americans.
(b) It would revert back to the crown.
(c) It would revert back to the land speculator.
(d) It would become the land of Spain.

4. The beginning point for this migration was where?
(a) The port of Albany.
(b) The port of New York.
(c) The port of Boston.
(d) The port of Maine.

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

6. In 1763, when almost all of the land east of the Mississippi River became the territory of what nation?
(a) France.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

7. Besides not making money quickly, why else does a seller not want the "goods" to remain in his care?
(a) They will want to keep the servants.
(b) They have to feed, clothe, and house the servants.
(c) They have no work for the servants.
(d) They are tired of the servants.

8. 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) New York.
(c) Maine.
(d) Massachusetts.

9. Describe the Gulf shore.
(a) Mineral rich soil and fertile.
(b) Sandy and infertile.
(c) Sandy, yet fertile.
(d) Wooded and hilly.

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

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

12. When is there a wild land boom in Nova Scotia?
(a) The mid-Forties.
(b) The mid-Fifties.
(c) The mid-Sixties.
(d) The mid-Thirties.

13. 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 West Florida Society.
(c) The Mississippi Society.
(d) The East Florida Society.

14. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

15. Where do these first settlers go?
(a) The sandy beaches along the Atlantic.
(b) The fertile upper valley of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers.
(c) The fertile land around Lake Okeechobee.
(d) The swampland found along what is now called Aligator Alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. At a minimum, how many immigrants arrived in New York from Britain in the two years before the war and it is likely that another 1,300 also arrived?

2. The Register documents how many emigrant voyages from this village, containing 155 emigrants, in total?

3. What is surprising about the expeditions previously mentioned?

4. When do the first of these offices appear?

5. The beginning steps of opening the land to settlement are _________.

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