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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During the seventeenth century, who are the only people who would continue to use this service?
(a) Those who are new to the country.
(b) Those who are desperate or naive.
(c) Those who do not speak English.
(d) Those who are young.

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

4. What location would sellers avoid for holding sales?
(a) Places where other ships had recently arrived.
(b) Places that cost a price.
(c) Places that are too open to the elements.
(d) Places that are too windy.

5. What is surprising about the expeditions previously mentioned?
(a) The surviving records are surprisingly complete.
(b) The settlers were surprisingly wealthy.
(c) The expeditions were surprisingly successful.
(d) The settlers were surprisingly prepared for colony life.

6. To find the types of workers that were needed, merchants and their agents relied on public notifications. What are important focuses of these notifications?
(a) Public houses.
(b) Opera houses.
(c) Brothels.
(d) Theatrical houses.

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

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

9. What is the most common form of payment?
(a) Trade in goods.
(b) Checks.
(c) Cash.
(d) Bills of exchange.

10. 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 will want to keep the servants.
(c) They are tired of the servants.
(d) They have to feed, clothe, and house the servants.

11. While Inglis was preparing the vessel and ordering supplies, Hogg was busy doing what?
(a) Planning the trip.
(b) Buying supplies for the trip.
(c) Planning his life in America.
(d) Selecting passengers.

12. People came from all over the colonies to settle in West Florida, particularly from what region?
(a) Eastern South Carolina.
(b) Eastern North Carolina.
(c) Western North Carolina.
(d) Western South Carolina.

13. This colony and the adjacent islands totaled over how many square miles and had a population of less than 18,000 in early 1774?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 22,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 10,000.

14. 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?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 5,000.

15. How would the seller wait when the buyers surveyed the servants?
(a) Sadly.
(b) Excitedly.
(c) Anxiously.
(d) Annoyed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?

5. What do buyers also have to consider when making a purchase?

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