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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 9 Recruitment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are unscrupulous recruiters called?
(a) Crimps.
(b) Fimps.
(c) Pimps.
(d) Chimps.

2. Over ___________ of the migrants went to mainland colonies.
(a) Eighty percent.
(b) Twenty-five percent.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

3. A much smaller percentage was going where?
(a) To Canada and Nova Scotia.
(b) To Canada and the West Indies.
(c) To North Carolina and New York.
(d) To Mexico and the West Indies.

4. By 1765, it was evident that one result of the employment problems in the silk industry would be what?
(a) A large exodus of weavers to other countries in Europe.
(b) A large exodus of weavers to other trades.
(c) A small exodus of weavers to the colonies.
(d) A large exodus of weavers to the colonies.

5. The overwhelming majority of the individuals emigrating gave their destinations as mainland North American colonies south of where?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Nova Scotia.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?

2. During the seventeenth century, who are the only people who would continue to use this service?

3. Why does this proclamation aim to slow expansion?

4. Most available for labor are who?

5. It is estimated that for the years 1718 to 1775, how many convicts were banished to the colonies?

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