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

2. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.
(a) Pre-industrial, pre-urban, and pre-humanitarian.
(b) Much like the British Isles.
(c) Ahead of its time.
(d) More industrial, urban, and humane than most of Europe.

3. What types of groups of emigrants leave steadily over the months for North America?
(a) Small.
(b) Very large.
(c) Medium.
(d) Large.

4. At this time, most individuals concerned with emigration focused on what?
(a) A loss in a sense of nationalism.
(b) A sense of fear felt by those who stay in Great Britain.
(c) Personal losses.
(d) Demographic and economic losses.

5. The overwhelming majority of the individuals emigrating gave their destinations as mainland North American colonies south of where?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Nova Scotia.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

2. How many ironworks are operating in the colonies at this time?

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

4. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?

5. What closes the trans-Appalachian west, except to licensed traders, and created the colonies of Quebec, East and West Florida?

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