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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where are most of the ironworks built?
(a) Along the coast.
(b) In open country.
(c) In agricultural towns.
(d) In heavily wooded areas.

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

4. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?
(a) He is overwhelmed with his job.
(b) He is tired of his job.
(c) He is emigrating to America.
(d) He is sick.

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

6. What types of groups of emigrants leave steadily over the months for North America?
(a) Large.
(b) Very large.
(c) Small.
(d) Medium.

7. To where do they immigrate?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) America.

8. What is the major problem of this survey?
(a) Information is given by word of mouth.
(b) There are many stowaways.
(c) Most people cannot write to fill out the paperwork.
(d) There is no legal requirement for vessels carrying emigrants to register with customs.

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

10. During this time, there was also an array of lobbyists working for land speculators and western trading interests, led by whom?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Moore.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

11. Building craftsman and clothing makers were in high demand where?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New York.
(c) Almost everywhere.
(d) Maryland.

12. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.
(a) An average.
(b) Large.
(c) Small.
(d) Very small.

13. In the provinces, is there mass exodus anywhere in Britain?
(a) No.
(b) In some provinces.
(c) Some.
(d) Yes.

14. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?
(a) Along the Atlantic coast.
(b) North and south.
(c) To Florida.
(d) The backcountry of the coastal colonies and trans-Appalachian west.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bailyn turns his attention to where the emigrants migrated to in North America. How does he argue that they travel to all the colonies?

2. Is child labor popular in the silk industry at this time?

3. This raw data that is collected by English and Scottish port officials is sent where?

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

5. Families migrating together tended to go to New York, North Carolina, and _________.

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