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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. What does Hogg decide about the prospective emigrants?

2. What other location would sellers avoid?

3. Is large-scale land speculation new in North America?

4. All those who voyaged to the American colonies were what?

5. What society was made up on 40 to 50 merchants, noblemen, and entrepreneurs who wanted to develop new properties in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

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

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

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

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

Indentured servants are often bought and sold once they reach the colonies.

Part 1) Why did this purchase happen here? Why was it not done earlier?

Part 2) How might this have affected both the servants and the sellers? Why?

Part 3) Why would someone become an indentured servant? Would you become one?

Essay Topic 2

Other areas of the British Isles do not see a mass exodus.

Part 1) Why do they not see a mass exodus?

Part 2) How are they still affected by mass exoduses elsewhere?

Part 3) Is there still a connection between these locations and the areas where many people are leaving? If so, what is this connection? If not, why is there no connection?

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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