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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Introduction and Chapter 11 Yorkshire and the Maritime Northeast.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After registering, were vessels free to pick up passengers without registering them?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) Only ten passengers.
(d) No.

2. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?
(a) Textile work.
(b) Pottery.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Cleaning.

3. On the verge of the Revolution, the American colonies were producing what percentage of the world's iron supply or about 30,000 tons annually?
(a) About one-sixth.
(b) About one-seventh.
(c) About one-fifth.
(d) About one-fourth.

4. The Earl of Hillsborough argues that the colonies are to benefit the kingdom through commerce and the production of goods. What does he think about settling the western lands, regarding this goal?
(a) It is a simple solution to achieve this goal.
(b) It will be difficult to do.
(c) It makes a lot of sense.
(d) It makes no sense.

5. What does the Earl of Hillsborough grasp?
(a) The weaknesses found in the colonies.
(b) The importance of the colonies.
(c) The implications of the westward expansion and emigration.
(d) The positive effects expansion has on Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

2. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?

3. What does Bailyn say about what these patterns show about the migration from Britain to America?

4. When is there a wild land boom in Nova Scotia?

5. The largest occupation category is what?

(see the answer key)

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