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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 6 Arrivals and Destinations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As what do the colonies become known?
(a) A savage land.
(b) A no man's land.
(c) A potential gold mine in land values, consumer markets, and so on.
(d) A threat to British power.

2. What is the result of this collection?
(a) It illuminates the essential characteristics of the emigration.
(b) It explains what is faulty about Great Britain.
(c) It gives some basic information about those who emigrate.
(d) It illuminates what life is like after emigration.

3. The largest occupation category is what?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Artisans, craftsmen, or workers trained in specific skills.
(d) Merchants.

4. Of the 8,613 emigrants whose sex was registered, about ____________ are males?
(a) One-fourth.
(b) Three-fourths.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) One-half.

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 two-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(b) The Register's totals account for probably around four-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(c) The Register's totals account for probably around one-fifth of the total number of British emigrants.
(d) The Register's totals account for probably around three-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.

2. In New York and North Carolina, over eighty-five percent of migrants were Scots and were more likely to be __________.

3. The ages of the emigrants tended to concentrate around what ages?

4. What closes the trans-Appalachian west, except to licensed traders, and created the colonies of Quebec, East and West Florida?

5. _________ of the nuclear families consisted of only a husband and wife.

(see the answer key)

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