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

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

3. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.
(a) Very small.
(b) Small.
(c) Large.
(d) An average.

4. The importation of workers from where had begun in 1714?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) France.
(c) Africa.
(d) Germany.

5. What closes the trans-Appalachian west, except to licensed traders, and created the colonies of Quebec, East and West Florida?
(a) The Proclamation of the 1773.
(b) The Proclamation of 1763.
(c) The Proclamation of the Americas.
(d) The Proclamation of the Colonies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made this form of payment difficult?

3. What is the most valuable form of payment for a servant?

4. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.

5. In the period before the American Revolution, what is the northeastern most point in the arc of borderlands in the outer boundaries of British communities in North America?

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