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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. In the provinces, is there mass exodus anywhere in Britain?
(a) In some provinces.
(b) No.
(c) Some.
(d) Yes.

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

3. The average ages for immigrants to the colonies range from a low of ________________ to a high of 40.5 for Canada.
(a) 15. 3 for Virginia.
(b) 18.7 for North Carolina.
(c) 20.5 for Massachusetts.
(d) 27.8 for New York.

4. What is commonly believed by 1773?
(a) British emigration was leading to more wealth for those who stayed behind.
(b) British emigration was becoming unpopular.
(c) British emigration was becoming more difficult to do.
(d) British emigration was leading to depopulation in certain areas of the British Isles.

5. Migrants to Nova Scotia tended to be similar to those going to New York and North Carolina while those migrating to the West Indies tended to be similar to those migrating to which colonies?
(a) The northern colonies.
(b) The island colonies.
(c) The central colonies.
(d) The southern colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?

3. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?

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

5. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?

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