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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 valuable form of payment for a servant?

2. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?

3. The managers often fleeced applicants and sometimes did what to poor women?

4. Who helps James Hogg by arranging to have a vessel sent north to transport James and his family?

5. What does the Register bring into focus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Register reveal about Whitby?

5. What is Jonas Brown's plan?

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

7. Why is a network formed between those in Great Britain and those in the American colonies?

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

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

10. How were these new lands divided?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Land speculators are important in the selling of land.

Part 1) What is a land speculator? How are they important?

Part 2) What would the colonies have been like without land speculators? Could the colonies have expanded without land speculators? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person would make a good land speculator? What qualities would one need to be successful?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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