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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 7 The Demand.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In New York and North Carolina, over eighty-five percent of migrants were Scots and were more likely to be __________.
(a) Artisans.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Merchants.

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-fourth.
(b) About one-sixth.
(c) About one-seventh.
(d) About one-fifth.

4. More children below the age of ten and more _________________ departed from Scotland.
(a) Men and girls.
(b) Men and boys.
(c) Women and girls.
(d) Women and boys.

5. Of the 8,613 emigrants whose sex was registered, about ____________ are males?
(a) Three-fourths.
(b) One-half.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) One-fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Building in general accounts for much of the recruitment of artisans from where?

2. As what do the colonies become known?

3. 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?

4. More than half of the migrants to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are ____________.

5. Those between what ages typically travel independent of families?

(see the answer key)

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