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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is James Hogg?

2. Maps were needed for the new territory. Who is appointed in the north?

3. 16 of these ships came from England and how many came from Scotland?

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

5. When these recruiters confronted the victims about their debt, what choices are they given?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about East Florida?

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

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

4. What takes place to provide maps of the region?

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

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

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

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

9. What takes place in the early 1760s?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several possible solutions are considered for the emigration problem.

Part 1) What are these solutions? What are the pros and cons of each?

Part 2) Which solution is chosen? How successful is it?

Part 3) How does this solution affect Great Britain, the United States and Canada today?

Essay Topic 2

Land speculators are important in the selling of land.

Part 1) What is a land speculator? How are they important?

Part 2) What would the colonies have been like without land speculators? Could the colonies have expanded without land speculators? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person would make a good land speculator? What qualities would one need to be successful?

Essay Topic 3

The situation in New York is similar in many ways to the events in other colonies.

Part 1) Describe the situation in New York. How is it like the situations in other colonies?

Part 2) Why do these similarities between the colonies exist?

Part 3) What is the purpose of this chapter? What is the significance of ending the book with this chapter?

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