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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. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Seven.

2. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

4. At a minimum, how many immigrants arrived in New York from Britain in the two years before the war and it is likely that another 1,300 also arrived?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

5. What is the result of this collection?
(a) It gives some basic information about those who emigrate.
(b) It illuminates the essential characteristics of the emigration.
(c) It illuminates what life is like after emigration.
(d) It explains what is faulty about Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.

2. What does the Register also record?

3. Who helps James Hogg by arranging to have a vessel sent north to transport James and his family?

4. A much smaller percentage was going where?

5. Where do these first settlers go?

(see the answer key)

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