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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 7 The Demand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bailyn say about the force of attraction to North America?
(a) It is a a necessary evil for British emigrants.
(b) It is powerful for British emigrants.
(c) It is a waste of time for British emigrants.
(d) It is attractive to British emigrants.

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

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

4. How is the information handled at these sites?
(a) Differently.
(b) Not well.
(c) The same.
(d) Almost the same.

5. During this time, there was also an array of lobbyists working for land speculators and western trading interests, led by whom?
(a) Benjamin Moore.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The overwhelming majority of the individuals emigrating gave their destinations as mainland North American colonies south of where?

2. Construction, and in particular what type of building, was also a large industry in the North American colonies?

3. 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?

4. Those between what ages typically travel independent of families?

5. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?

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