View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bailyn say about what these patterns show about the migration from Britain to America?
(a) A discrete and patterned movement of people.
(b) A movement that, at times, seems to have a pattern.
(c) A unorganized movement of people.
(d) A small amount of movement of people.

2. The reports from the customs officials show 9,868 individuals leaving for North America from December, 1773 to March, 1776. Why must this number must be adjusted?
(a) Many women are pregnant.
(b) One year is left out of the count.
(c) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(d) The customs officials did not count correctly.

3. The managers often fleeced applicants and sometimes did what to poor women?
(a) Trapped them in prostitution.
(b) Ignored them.
(c) Fired them.
(d) Stole from them.

4. What is also increasing between industries?
(a) Employee swapping.
(b) Competition.
(c) Agreements.
(d) Compromises.

5. When these recruiters confronted the victims about their debt, what choices are they given?
(a) Death or debtors' prison.
(b) Death or servitude.
(c) Debtors' prison or servitude.
(d) Servitude or slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the first of these offices appear?

2. What do these unscrupulous recruiters do to impoverished victims?

3. What other jobs had also become unstable?

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

5. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 306 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample