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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. Bailyn turns his attention to where the emigrants migrated to in North America. How does he argue that they travel to all the colonies?
(a) They travel to all the colonies in equal amounts.
(b) They all take the same few boats.
(c) They do not travel to all the colonies in equal amounts.
(d) They often purchase their own vessels for the journey.

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

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

4. When do the first of these offices appear?
(a) In the seventeenth century.
(b) In the eighteenth century.
(c) In the fifteenth century.
(d) In the sixteenth century.

5. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes, in a few years.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are unscrupulous recruiters called?

2. 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?

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

4. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.

5. The average ages for immigrants to the colonies range from a low of ________________ to a high of 40.5 for Canada.

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