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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. When do the first of these offices appear?

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

3. While Inglis was preparing the vessel and ordering supplies, Hogg was busy doing what?

4. What is happening by 1770?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Register reveal about Whitby?

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

3. How are indentured servants often sold?

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

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

6. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

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

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

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

10. Who is one of the first larger groups to migrate to West Florida? Describe their arrival.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many immigrants see the colonies as a place of opportunity.

Part 1) How do they come to this view of the colonies?

Part 2) Is this an accurate view? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this optimistic view of the colonies affect the beliefs of Americans and those who immigrate here today?

Essay Topic 2

Florida and other southern states are part of East and West Florida.

Part 1) What information does the author give about East and West Florida?

Part 2) What is significant about this information? How does the settlement of one affect the settlement of the other?

Part 3) Why is one region better than the other? Why is it easier to settle?

Part 4) What is learned about the importance of experience and working with others in this section about East and West Florida?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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