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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 is the most common form of payment?

2. The number of emigrants was increased from 100 to a minimum of what?

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

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

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 are indentured servants often sold?

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

3. How were these new lands divided?

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

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

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

7. What does the author say about East Florida?

8. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

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

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

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

Some grantees have problems when the American Revolution begins.

Part 1) What is a grantee? Why would the American Revolution cause problems?

Part 2) How were the other settlers affected by the American Revolution?

Part 3) Does the information in this book give any insight into causes and consequences of the American Revolution? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Many immigrants see the colonies as a place of opportunity.

Part 1) How do they come to this view of the colonies?

Part 2) Is this an accurate view? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this optimistic view of the colonies affect the beliefs of Americans and those who immigrate here today?

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