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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. How are merchants able to barter with overseers?

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

3. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?

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

5. What is Jonas Brown's main business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place in the early 1760s?

2. How were these new lands divided?

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

4. Who first inspected the province? What did they see?

5. How are servants paid?

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

7. What is known about those who voyaged to the American colonies?

8. What is unique about James Hogg's departure for North Carolina?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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