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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 has long existed in the silk industry?

2. Why is there a small need for additional workers in this region?

3. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?

4. Do the concerns over the settlement of western lands and emigration from Britain to the colonies play a role in the early efforts of the British government to establish and shape policies on the western lands?

5. This raw data that is collected by English and Scottish port officials is sent where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Earl of Hillsborough?

2. Who is John Powell? What does he suggest?

3. How is the unending demand for labor satisfied?

4. What is commonly believed by 1773?

5. Describe the spreading of the population in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War. What is the significance of this?

6. What does Bailyn say about the force of attraction to North America?

7. What does the author say about the silk industry?

8. What does Bailyn say about where the emigrants migrated the most?

9. What is wrong with this survey?

10. What does the author say about the iron industry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An overwhelming number of Scottish immigrants ended up in specific colonies.

Part 1) How has this happened? How does this parallel the settling of other colonies?

Part 2) How is this settling reflected in various cultural societies' settlements today?

Part 3) How have these Scottish people helped to create the culture in these areas today?

Essay Topic 2

A large number of the immigrants is young and male.

Part 1) How is this proven? Why are so many young and male?

Part 2) How might this have affected the development of the colonies?

Part 3) How have these young men helped make our country what it is today?

Essay Topic 3

Many people involved in the expansion of the colonies suffer hardships.

Part 1) What hardships do they suffer? Why do they suffer these hardships?

Part 2) Do they realize the risks they undertake? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person must one be to be settler? Why?

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