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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. At this time, most individuals concerned with emigration focused on what?
(a) A loss in a sense of nationalism.
(b) A sense of fear felt by those who stay in Great Britain.
(c) Demographic and economic losses.
(d) Personal losses.

2. Most of these vessels listed were probably engaged in commercial voyages and carried passengers for what reason?
(a) To help them get to America.
(b) To break even on their profits.
(c) To have enough workers on the ship.
(d) To fill out their cargo and to gain some extra profit.

3. What do these unscrupulous recruiters do to impoverished victims?
(a) They induce them to pile up debts for housing.
(b) They induce them to pile up debts for food, clothing, and drink.
(c) They induce them to end debt by working hard.
(d) They induce them to lessen their debt by selling their valuables.

4. What has long existed in the silk industry?
(a) The same weaving techniques.
(b) Happy employees.
(c) Many jobs.
(d) Labor unrest.

5. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?
(a) The Register's totals account for probably around four-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(b) The Register's totals account for probably around one-fifth of the total number of British emigrants.
(c) The Register's totals account for probably around three-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(d) The Register's totals account for probably around two-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The overwhelming majority of the individuals emigrating gave their destinations as mainland North American colonies south of where?

3. The emigrants listed in the Register sailed to America in how many different vessels?

4. The flow of individuals into New York and North Carolina seem to form small communities composed largely of _________ working the land.

5. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.

(see the answer key)

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