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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

2. What is unique about James Hogg's departure for America?
(a) The records were almost completely destroyed.
(b) His trip is very simple.
(c) The records that survived.
(d) His trip is very organized.

3. Efforts are being made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of what states?
(a) Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.
(b) New York, Delaware and Maryland.
(c) Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
(d) North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

4. Where do these first settlers go?
(a) The fertile land around Lake Okeechobee.
(b) The fertile upper valley of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers.
(c) The sandy beaches along the Atlantic.
(d) The swampland found along what is now called Aligator Alley.

5. Why is this a positive aspect about West Florida?
(a) The established Spanish settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.
(b) The established French settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.
(c) The established Portuguese settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.
(d) The established Italian settlers may be willing to come into British territory to help settle the new province.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first settlers into the new British territory began in what year?

2. Besides not making money quickly, why else does a seller not want the "goods" to remain in his care?

3. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?

4. At almost any time during the spring and fall months, what happens to indentured servants' labor?

5. There are successes in land speculation and, as more British become aware of the opportunities, what happens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Britain takes over Nova Scotia? What is the reason for this?

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

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

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

8. How else do merchants recruit workers?

9. What does the Register reveal about Whitby?

10. What takes place in the early 1760s?

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