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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. Why might land speculators not be interested in this land?

2. How many departures does the Register show for West Florida between 1773 and 1776?

3. What is the most common form of payment?

4. What location would sellers avoid for holding sales?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How else do merchants recruit workers?

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

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

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

5. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

6. How are indentured servants often sold?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many people involved in the expansion of the colonies suffer hardships.

Part 1) What hardships do they suffer? Why do they suffer these hardships?

Part 2) Do they realize the risks they undertake? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person must one be to be settler? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The Registry is both faulty and useful.

Part 1) How is it faulty? How is it useful?

Part 2) Why is the information from the Registry important?

Part 3) How is this registry and this study on emigration important? How does it impact us today?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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