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

2. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?
(a) Along the Atlantic coast.
(b) North and south.
(c) The backcountry of the coastal colonies and trans-Appalachian west.
(d) To Florida.

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

4. The reports from the customs officials show 9,868 individuals leaving for North America from December, 1773 to March, 1776. Why must this number must be adjusted?
(a) Many women are pregnant.
(b) The customs officials did not count correctly.
(c) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(d) One year is left out of the count.

5. What are unscrupulous recruiters called?
(a) Chimps.
(b) Crimps.
(c) Fimps.
(d) Pimps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do these unscrupulous recruiters do to impoverished victims?

2. Do those in the colonies have to struggle to maintain the forms of civilized existence that were present elsewhere?

3. Do similar situations exist in other industries in this city?

4. The Earl of Hillsborough argues that the colonies are to benefit the kingdom through commerce and the production of goods. What does he think about settling the western lands, regarding this goal?

5. More children below the age of ten and more _________________ departed from Scotland.

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