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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. What is commonly believed by 1773?
(a) British emigration was becoming more difficult to do.
(b) British emigration was leading to more wealth for those who stayed behind.
(c) British emigration was becoming unpopular.
(d) British emigration was leading to depopulation in certain areas of the British Isles.

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

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

4. How is the information handled at these sites?
(a) Not well.
(b) Almost the same.
(c) Differently.
(d) The same.

5. The average ages for immigrants to the colonies range from a low of ________________ to a high of 40.5 for Canada.
(a) 20.5 for Massachusetts.
(b) 18.7 for North Carolina.
(c) 27.8 for New York.
(d) 15. 3 for Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The beginning steps of opening the land to settlement are _________.

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

3. Where are most of the ironworks built?

4. Why is there a small need for additional workers in this region?

5. In New York and North Carolina, over eighty-five percent of migrants were Scots and were more likely to be __________.

(see the answer key)

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