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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. Why is this a positive aspect about West Florida?
(a) The established French settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.
(b) The established Spanish settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.
(c) The established Portuguese settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.
(d) The established Italian settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.

2. Where are the servants and convicts brought to be inspected by potential buyers?
(a) In private homes.
(b) In public houses.
(c) Up on deck.
(d) In court rooms.

3. Where is a new British naval base and provincial capital built?
(a) At Vermont.
(b) At Quebec.
(c) At Halifax.
(d) At Boston.

4. Efforts are being made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of what states?
(a) Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.
(b) Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
(c) New York, Delaware and Maryland.
(d) North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

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 individuals traveling to different parts of the colonies.
(d) The movement of families traveling to specific colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?

2. The Register documents how many emigrant voyages from this village, containing 155 emigrants, in total?

3. In 1763, when almost all of the land east of the Mississippi River became the territory of what nation?

4. Where does James Hogg try to settle 200 Scottish Highlanders?

5. To find the types of workers that were needed, merchants and their agents relied on public notifications. What are important focuses of these notifications?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are indentured servants often sold?

2. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

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

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

5. What does the Register record about the major part of migration and and the migration of families?

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

7. How else do merchants recruit workers?

8. What does the Register reveal about Whitby?

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

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

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