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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Chapter 16 New York: Swarming to the North.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area proved to be most attractive to land speculators and investors?
(a) West Florida.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) East Florida.

2. How are merchants able to barter with overseers?
(a) They are willing to give the overseers a great deal of money.
(b) The overseers will steal from the merchants.
(c) The merchants barter with trade goods.
(d) The overseers are eager to unload their charges.

3. At almost any time during the spring and fall months, what happens to indentured servants' labor?
(a) It is sold on board the newly arrived vessels in the ports south of New England.
(b) It is sold prior to boarding a vessel for the colonies.
(c) It is sold in private homes.
(d) It is sold in public houses.

4. What does the Register bring into focus?
(a) The seaside resort of Glassgow.
(b) The small fishing village of Whitby on the North Sea coast of Yorkshire.
(c) The small urban town of Edinburgh.
(d) The large town of London.

5. After 1760 and the end of the war in North America, what happens to the colonies?
(a) They expand.
(b) They become less risky.
(c) They stay the same.
(d) They shrink.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ages of the emigrants tended to concentrate around what ages?

2. What made this form of payment difficult?

3. Migrants to Nova Scotia tended to be similar to those going to New York and North Carolina while those migrating to the West Indies tended to be similar to those migrating to which colonies?

4. What other jobs had also become unstable?

5. What is also increasing between industries?

(see the answer key)

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