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

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

3. Bailyn argues that for the men a picture develops of lower middle and working class men for whom emigration was what?
(a) An opportunity to be sought rather than a desperate escape.
(b) Something exciting to do.
(c) Something that they must do for their families.
(d) A desperate escape rather than an opportunity to be sought.

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

5. A much smaller percentage was going where?
(a) To Canada and Nova Scotia.
(b) To Canada and the West Indies.
(c) To North Carolina and New York.
(d) To Mexico and the West Indies.

Short Answer Questions

1. More than half of the migrants to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are ____________.

2. What does the Earl of Hillsborough grasp?

3. After registering, were vessels free to pick up passengers without registering them?

4. When does Hillsborough take on the key post of secretary of state for the colonies?

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

(see the answer key)

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