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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the bill for which the Earl of Hillsborough fought?
(a) It is modified.
(b) It is considered.
(c) It is defeated.
(d) It is accepted.

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

3. 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-fifth.
(b) About one-fourth.
(c) About one-seventh.
(d) About one-sixth.

4. Of the 6,190 emigrants whose occupation is listed, only _____________ listed occupations that were considered "gentle."
(a) 4.5%
(b) 45%
(c) 2.3%.
(d) 23%.

5. What other jobs had also become unstable?
(a) Communication fields.
(b) Agricultural employment.
(c) Painting employment.
(d) Teaching.

6. More than half of the migrants to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are ____________.
(a) Merchants.
(b) Indentured servants.
(c) Artisans.
(d) Politicians.

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

8. The occupations and residences of those emigrating to New York and North Carolina are _____________ the previous colonies.
(a) Different from.
(b) The same as.
(c) Better than.
(d) Worse than.

9. Do similar situations exist in other industries in this city?
(a) Yes, but not until later in the century.
(b) Yes, but only in a small amount of industries.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

10. A much smaller percentage was going where?
(a) To Canada and the West Indies.
(b) To Mexico and the West Indies.
(c) To North Carolina and New York.
(d) To Canada and Nova Scotia.

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

12. Do British officials pay much attention at first to the settlement of western lands in America or to emigration from Britain to the colonies?
(a) Yes, a great deal.
(b) No, not at all.
(c) Yes, somewhat.
(d) No, not too much.

13. The information sent to where is sent directly to the Treasury in London without any editing or summarization?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Dublin.

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

15. In New York and North Carolina, over eighty-five percent of migrants were Scots and were more likely to be __________.
(a) Merchants.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Artisans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over ___________ of the migrants went to mainland colonies.

2. In the months that followed, how many emigrants do customs officials interview?

3. How is this concentration of ages markedly different from the overall percentage of British citizens and from the population of the American colonies?

4. In this chapter, what does Bailyn examine?

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

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