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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bailyn say about what these patterns show about the migration from Britain to America?
(a) A unorganized movement of people.
(b) A small amount of movement of people.
(c) A discrete and patterned movement of people.
(d) A movement that, at times, seems to have a pattern.

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

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

4. Was it new that North America had been seen as a place of refuge?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

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

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

7. Is child labor popular in the silk industry at this time?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) In some regions.
(d) At the beginning of the century.

8. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?
(a) At first.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

9. How much regard is there for human suffering and rights?
(a) Much.
(b) Little.
(c) A great amount of.
(d) Some.

10. What is John Tompkyns' job?
(a) He files all of the paperwork.
(b) He sends the reports to the various inspection sites.
(c) He inspects and corrects each incoming report and then copies the information onto large uniform sheets.
(d) He organizes the paperwork.

11. The Earl of Hillsborough argues that the colonies are to benefit the kingdom through commerce and the production of goods. What does he think about settling the western lands, regarding this goal?
(a) It makes no sense.
(b) It makes a lot of sense.
(c) It is a simple solution to achieve this goal.
(d) It will be difficult to do.

12. By 1765, it was evident that one result of the employment problems in the silk industry would be what?
(a) A large exodus of weavers to other trades.
(b) A small exodus of weavers to the colonies.
(c) A large exodus of weavers to other countries in Europe.
(d) A large exodus of weavers to the colonies.

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

14. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?
(a) One of complexity as thousands of people in every region of the country move to ports of exit.
(b) One of simplicity as only those in England move to London, the port of exit.
(c) One of complexity as tens of thousands of people in every region in Europe moves to ports of exit.
(d) One of simplicity as a few hundred people move to London and a few other ports of exit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?

2. Why is there a small need for additional workers in this region?

3. In the pre-Revolutionary years, many people emigrated from where?

4. The importation of workers from where had begun in 1714?

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

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