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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does James Hogg try to settle 200 Scottish Highlanders?
(a) In the backcountry of New York.
(b) In the backcountry of South Carolina.
(c) In the backcountry of Virginia.
(d) In the backcountry of North Carolina.

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

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

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

6. What is unique about James Hogg's departure for America?
(a) His trip is very organized.
(b) The records that survived.
(c) The records were almost completely destroyed.
(d) His trip is very simple.

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

8. The population of this colony and surrounding islands, although small, is what?
(a) Mostly Micmac.
(b) Ethnically typical of other colonies.
(c) Mostly French.
(d) Ethnically diverse.

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

11. The number of emigrants was increased from 100 to a minimum of what?
(a) 400.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 200.

12. What accounts for a major part of the migration to North America in the Register?
(a) The lack of labor available after 1760.
(b) The lack of need for labor after 1760.
(c) The demand for labor before 1760.
(d) The demand for labor after 1760.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This colony and the adjacent islands totaled over how many square miles and had a population of less than 18,000 in early 1774?

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

4. Why is this a positive aspect about West Florida?

5. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?

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