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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. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?
(a) At first.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

2. Most of these vessels listed were probably engaged in commercial voyages and carried passengers for what reason?
(a) To break even on their profits.
(b) To fill out their cargo and to gain some extra profit.
(c) To help them get to America.
(d) To have enough workers on the ship.

3. Do the concerns over the settlement of western lands and emigration from Britain to the colonies play a role in the early efforts of the British government to establish and shape policies on the western lands?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

4. More children below the age of ten and more _________________ departed from Scotland.
(a) Women and girls.
(b) Men and boys.
(c) Men and girls.
(d) Women and boys.

5. Do those in the colonies have to struggle to maintain the forms of civilized existence that were present elsewhere?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) A little.
(d) Not much.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?

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

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

5. Families migrating together tended to go to New York, North Carolina, and _________.

(see the answer key)

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