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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 land is the most attractive in Nova Scotia?

2. When Britain took over Nova Scotia, what did it do with the settlers there?

3. In the years before the Revolution, there were at least thirty-eight colonial merchant firms dealing in what nationality of servants?

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

5. What are unscrupulous recruiters called?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How are indentured servants often sold?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Workers face hardships during the emigration process.

Part 1) What hardships did they face? Why?

Part 2) How were they affected by the hardships? Does this affect the number of people emigrating? Why or why not?

Part 3) Why might someone continue through this tough emigration process? Why kept them from giving up? What does this say about those who immigrated to the Americas?

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

London becomes a magnet for those seeking work and those seeking workers.

Part 1) London became a magnet fro those seeking work and those seeking workers?

Part 2) What connection does this supply and demand create between London and the colonies?

Part 3) How does this urban metropolis affect those in the Americas?

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