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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Chapter 14 North Carolina: The Wreck of the Bachelor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the age that individuals could legally bind themselves as indentured servants?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

2. This colony and the adjacent islands totaled over how many square miles and had a population of less than 18,000 in early 1774?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 22,000.
(d) 2,000.

3. Building craftsman and clothing makers were in high demand where?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Almost everywhere.
(d) New York.

4. What is the major problem of this survey?
(a) Information is given by word of mouth.
(b) There is no legal requirement for vessels carrying emigrants to register with customs.
(c) Most people cannot write to fill out the paperwork.
(d) There are many stowaways.

5. How are merchants able to barter with overseers?
(a) The overseers are eager to unload their charges.
(b) The overseers will steal from the merchants.
(c) They are willing to give the overseers a great deal of money.
(d) The merchants barter with trade goods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bailyn say about the force of attraction to North America?

3. Of the 6,190 emigrants whose occupation is listed, only _____________ listed occupations that were considered "gentle."

4. What does Bailyn say about what these patterns show about the migration from Britain to America?

5. When do the first of these offices appear?

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