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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. Who had provided what little information was known about this area from experience in the battles with the Spanish?

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

3. Not only was the demand for labor high in the colonies, but there was a potentially plentiful supply of labor where?

4. When do the first of these offices appear?

5. Who probably convinced James Hogg to lead and organize a group of emigrants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were these new lands divided?

3. How are servants paid?

4. How else do merchants recruit workers?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Many changes occur prior to the Revolution in the American colonies.

Part 1) What are two of these changes? Why do they take place?

Part 2) What is significant about these changes?

Part 3) How are these changes reflected in our world today?

Essay Topic 3

A large number of the immigrants is young and male.

Part 1) How is this proven? Why are so many young and male?

Part 2) How might this have affected the development of the colonies?

Part 3) How have these young men helped make our country what it is today?

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