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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 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.

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

3. When these recruiters confronted the victims about their debt, what choices are they given?
(a) Servitude or slavery.
(b) Death or debtors' prison.
(c) Death or servitude.
(d) Debtors' prison or servitude.

4. Detailed records connected to the Register are __________.
(a) Somewhat unusual.
(b) Plentiful.
(c) Rare.
(d) In abundance.

5. What does the Register also record?
(a) The movement of families traveling to different parts of the colonies.
(b) The movement of individuals traveling to specific colonies.
(c) The movement of families traveling to specific colonies.
(d) The movement of individuals traveling to different parts of the colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do these first settlers go?

2. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?

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

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

5. What did the British do this to these settlers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are servants paid?

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

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

6. How are indentured servants often sold?

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

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

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

10. What takes place in the early 1760s?

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