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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Introduction and Chapter 11 Yorkshire and the Maritime Northeast.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who provided much of the unskilled labor, particularly in the South, for the ironworks?
(a) Boys.
(b) Indentured servants.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Young children.

2. What does John Powell, an undersecretary of state for the colonies, suggest?
(a) A statistical assessment of emigration be done to see how Britain was affected.
(b) Emigration be halted.
(c) A statistical assessment of those who do not emigrate.
(d) Emigration be difficult and expensive.

3. What other jobs had also become unstable?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Communication fields.
(c) Painting employment.
(d) Agricultural employment.

4. Over ___________ of the migrants went to mainland colonies.
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Ten percent.
(c) Eighty percent.
(d) Twenty-five percent.

5. What is the result of this collection?
(a) It illuminates what life is like after emigration.
(b) It gives some basic information about those who emigrate.
(c) It illuminates the essential characteristics of the emigration.
(d) It explains what is faulty about Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location would sellers avoid for holding sales?

2. In the provinces, is there mass exodus anywhere in Britain?

3. Most available for labor are who?

4. What is the age that individuals could legally bind themselves as indentured servants?

5. This raw data that is collected by English and Scottish port officials is sent where?

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