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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. How many departures does the Register show for West Florida between 1773 and 1776?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

2. What is surprising about the expeditions previously mentioned?
(a) The settlers were surprisingly wealthy.
(b) The expeditions were surprisingly successful.
(c) The surviving records are surprisingly complete.
(d) The settlers were surprisingly prepared for colony life.

3. When is there a wild land boom in Nova Scotia?
(a) The mid-Fifties.
(b) The mid-Thirties.
(c) The mid-Sixties.
(d) The mid-Forties.

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

5. The managers often fleeced applicants and sometimes did what to poor women?
(a) Ignored them.
(b) Trapped them in prostitution.
(c) Stole from them.
(d) Fired them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who helps James Hogg by arranging to have a vessel sent north to transport James and his family?

3. Brown, his son, Thomas, and James Gordon embarked on what?

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

5. The beginning steps of opening the land to settlement are _________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author say about East Florida?

3. What is the importance of New York during this time?

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

5. Who is James Hogg? What does he try to do? Does he succeed?

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

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

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

9. How are indentured servants often sold?

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

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