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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. Most emigrants traveled ____________.
(a) In pairs.
(b) In groups.
(c) Alone.
(d) With families.

2. Why is the data source that the author mentions incomplete?
(a) It includes only information about males.
(b) It includes only information about those who are indentured servants.
(c) It includes only information about life after emigration.
(d) It includes only information for England and Scotland.

3. _________ of the nuclear families consisted of only a husband and wife.
(a) One-third.
(b) One-fifth.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) One-half.

4. On the verge of the Revolution, the American colonies were producing what percentage of the world's iron supply or about 30,000 tons annually?
(a) About one-seventh.
(b) About one-sixth.
(c) About one-fifth.
(d) About one-fourth.

5. What is the age that individuals could legally bind themselves as indentured servants?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does this proclamation aim to slow expansion?

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

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?

4. Of the 6,190 emigrants whose occupation is listed, only _____________ listed occupations that were considered "gentle."

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

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