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

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

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

4. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does communication between inland North Carolina and the Scottish Highlands remain strong?

2. What location would sellers avoid for holding sales?

3. There are successes in land speculation and, as more British become aware of the opportunities, what happens?

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

5. People came from all over the colonies to settle in West Florida, particularly from what region?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author say about East Florida?

3. What takes place in the early 1760s?

4. How else do merchants recruit workers?

5. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

6. What is unique about James Hogg's departure for North Carolina?

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

8. What does the Register reveal about Whitby?

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

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

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