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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The importation of workers from where had begun in 1714?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) France.
(c) Africa.
(d) Germany.

2. More children below the age of ten and more _________________ departed from Scotland.
(a) Women and girls.
(b) Women and boys.
(c) Men and boys.
(d) Men and girls.

3. When does Hillsborough take on the key post of secretary of state for the colonies?
(a) In 1758.
(b) In 1748.
(c) In 1768.
(d) In 1738.

4. Those between what ages typically travel independent of families?
(a) 10 and 15.
(b) 20 and 30.
(c) 18 and 25.
(d) 15 and 24.

5. What information is sometimes estimated by the customs officials?
(a) Race.
(b) Age.
(c) Gender.
(d) Trade.

6. As what do the colonies become known?
(a) A threat to British power.
(b) A savage land.
(c) A potential gold mine in land values, consumer markets, and so on.
(d) A no man's land.

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

8. Families migrating together tended to go to New York, North Carolina, and _________.
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Nova Scotia.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Florida.

9. On the verge of the Revolution, the American colonies were producing what percentage of the world's iron supply or about 30,000 tons annually?
(a) About one-fourth.
(b) About one-seventh.
(c) About one-fifth.
(d) About one-sixth.

10. 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?
(a) The northern colonies.
(b) The island colonies.
(c) The central colonies.
(d) The southern colonies.

11. Construction, and in particular what type of building, was also a large industry in the North American colonies?
(a) Business construction.
(b) Shipbuilding.
(c) Wagon building.
(d) Homebuilding.

12. Bailyn argues that for the men a picture develops of lower middle and working class men for whom emigration was what?
(a) An opportunity to be sought rather than a desperate escape.
(b) Something exciting to do.
(c) A desperate escape rather than an opportunity to be sought.
(d) Something that they must do for their families.

13. What is also increasing between industries?
(a) Employee swapping.
(b) Agreements.
(c) Competition.
(d) Compromises.

14. Why does this proclamation aim to slow expansion?
(a) To give Great Britain more power.
(b) To prevent border violence and gradually introduce civil government in these areas.
(c) To prevent the colonies from becoming tired of British rule.
(d) To prevent the Americas from becoming too powerful.

15. In what kind of world do these people live?
(a) One that is much like it is today.
(b) One that is somewhat risky.
(c) One that is constantly at risk.
(d) One that is much like Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bailyn say about what these patterns show about the migration from Britain to America?

2. Who provided much of the unskilled labor, particularly in the South, for the ironworks?

3. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.

4. The largest occupation category is what?

5. How is the information handled at these sites?

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