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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. What is happening by 1770?
(a) A small, irregular flow of people is moving into the province.
(b) A large, somewhat uncontrolled flow of people is moving into the province.
(c) A large, steady flow of people is moving into the province.
(d) A small, steady flow of people is moving into the province.

2. What do buyers also have to consider when making a purchase?
(a) Encumbrances like other family members and the character of the servants.
(b) Age and gender.
(c) The intelligence of the servant.
(d) The personality of the servant.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The lawlessness and danger of the Highlands convinced Hogg to do what?

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

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

5. When is there a wild land boom in Nova Scotia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are servants paid?

3. Why is a network formed between those in Great Britain and those in the American colonies?

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

5. What takes place to provide maps of the region?

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

7. What is extraordinary about the cases that have been examined?

8. Why is the location of a servant sale important to buyers?

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

10. Who is one of the first larger groups to migrate to West Florida? Describe their arrival.

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