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

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

4. Where are the servants and convicts brought to be inspected by potential buyers?
(a) Up on deck.
(b) In private homes.
(c) In court rooms.
(d) In public houses.

5. Why might land speculators not be interested in this land?
(a) It is far from the other colonies.
(b) It is obscure and unglamorous.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) It is hot and treacherous.

6. What does the Register bring into focus?
(a) The small fishing village of Whitby on the North Sea coast of Yorkshire.
(b) The seaside resort of Glassgow.
(c) The large town of London.
(d) The small urban town of Edinburgh.

7. For what are buyers looking?
(a) The servants with the most experience.
(b) The youngest and most attractive servants.
(c) The healthiest, most skilled at the lowest price for the longest commitment time.
(d) The healthiest and hardest working servants.

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

9. 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) Spain.
(d) Germany.

10. What did the British do this to these settlers?
(a) The British want everyone to speak the same language.
(b) The British desire their culture to be the most important.
(c) The British want to rid the colony of these strange people.
(d) The British desired to repopulate the colony with politically reliable Protestants.

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

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

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

14. The Register documents how many emigrant voyages from this village, containing 155 emigrants, in total?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Efforts are being made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of what states?

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

4. Is large-scale land speculation new in North America?

5. From the buyer's side, the longer he delayed the more likely what would happen?

(see the answer keys)

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