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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?
(a) Samuel Holland.
(b) Gerard De Brahm.
(c) Seth Hammond.
(d) Gerry De Vane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most valuable form of payment for a servant?

2. What other location would sellers avoid?

3. At almost any time during the spring and fall months, what happens to indentured servants' labor?

4. One part of this network is ______________ later called register offices.

5. What does Hogg decide about the prospective emigrants?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about the intelligence part of this network?

2. Who first inspected the province? What did they see?

3. What takes place in the early 1760s?

4. What is one way that West Florida differs from East Florida? Is this good? Why or why not?

5. What does the author say about East Florida?

6. What is known about those who voyaged to the American colonies?

7. On what do merchants and their agents rely? Why?

8. What efforts have been made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of Florida and the gulf and river shores of Mississippi and Alabama?

9. When did the first settler begin arriving in the new British territory? What information does the author give about this?

10. Describe the connection between the HIghlands and North Carolina.

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