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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. It is estimated that for the years 1718 to 1775, how many convicts were banished to the colonies?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 40,000.

2. Of the 8,613 emigrants whose sex was registered, about ____________ are males?
(a) One-half.
(b) Three-fourths.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) Two-thirds.

3. 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 shrink.
(d) They stay the same.

4. What does the Earl of Hillsborough grasp?
(a) The positive effects expansion has on Great Britain.
(b) The importance of the colonies.
(c) The weaknesses found in the colonies.
(d) The implications of the westward expansion and emigration.

5. The managers often fleeced applicants and sometimes did what to poor women?
(a) Fired them.
(b) Stole from them.
(c) Ignored them.
(d) Trapped them in prostitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the information handled at these sites?

2. Do the concerns over the settlement of western lands and emigration from Britain to the colonies play a role in the early efforts of the British government to establish and shape policies on the western lands?

3. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?

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

5. As what do the colonies become known?

(see the answer key)

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