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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. Who helps James Hogg by arranging to have a vessel sent north to transport James and his family?
(a) His cousin, Robert Hogg.
(b) His sister, Roberta Hogg.
(c) His brother, Robert Hogg.
(d) His father, Roger Hogg.

2. Grants that are given are revocable unless _____________ of the land was populated within three years with one person for every hundred acres.
(a) One-half.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-fifth.
(d) One-third.

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

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

5. Not only was the demand for labor high in the colonies, but there was a potentially plentiful supply of labor where?
(a) In the British Isles.
(b) Sweden.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What area proved to be most attractive to land speculators and investors?

2. Describe the Gulf shore.

3. Detailed records connected to the Register are __________.

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

5. In the years before the Revolution, there were at least thirty-eight colonial merchant firms dealing in what nationality of servants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author say about East Florida?

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

4. What does the Register reveal about Whitby?

5. What does the author say about Nova Scotia in the period before the American Revolution?

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

7. What happens when Britain takes over Nova Scotia? What is the reason for this?

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

9. How were these new lands divided?

10. What takes place in the early 1760s?

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