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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 13 Gulf and Delta.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The customs officials did not count correctly.
(b) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(c) Many women are pregnant.
(d) One year is left out of the count.

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

3. Why might land speculators not be interested in this land?
(a) It is obscure and unglamorous.
(b) It is hot and treacherous.
(c) It is far from the other colonies.
(d) It is dangerous.

4. These characteristics are shared with other societies, but is America's way of life unique?
(a) Yes.
(b) Not very.
(c) A little.
(d) No.

5. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?
(a) Four blocks in North London.
(b) Four blocks in South London.
(c) Four blocks in East London.
(d) Four blocks in West London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?

2. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?

3. Those between what ages typically travel independent of families?

4. What society was made up on 40 to 50 merchants, noblemen, and entrepreneurs who wanted to develop new properties in America?

5. What does the Register also record?

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