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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. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?
(a) In Southern English and Irish ports.
(b) In Northern English and Scottish ports.
(c) In Southern English and French ports.
(d) In Northern English and Northern Irish ports.

2. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.
(a) Slightly less.
(b) Less than.
(c) Greater.
(d) The same.

3. 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 all take the same few boats.
(b) They do not travel to all the colonies in equal amounts.
(c) They travel to all the colonies in equal amounts.
(d) They often purchase their own vessels for the journey.

4. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?
(a) One of complexity as thousands of people in every region of the country move to ports of exit.
(b) One of complexity as tens of thousands of people in every region in Europe moves to ports of exit.
(c) One of simplicity as only those in England move to London, the port of exit.
(d) One of simplicity as a few hundred people move to London and a few other ports of exit.

5. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?
(a) Whether to create a new nation out of the colonies.
(b) Whether Great Britain should stay in control of the colonies.
(c) Whether to create a national census.
(d) Whether to allow people to emigrate to the colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bailyn argues that for the men a picture develops of lower middle and working class men for whom emigration was what?

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. Do British officials pay much attention at first to the settlement of western lands in America or to emigration from Britain to the colonies?

4. Was it new that North America had been seen as a place of refuge?

5. At this time, most individuals concerned with emigration focused on what?

(see the answer key)

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