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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Powell, an undersecretary of state for the colonies, suggest?
(a) Emigration be halted.
(b) Emigration be difficult and expensive.
(c) A statistical assessment of those who do not emigrate.
(d) A statistical assessment of emigration be done to see how Britain was affected.

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

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

4. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?
(a) The Register's totals account for probably around one-fifth of the total number of British emigrants.
(b) The Register's totals account for probably around two-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(c) The Register's totals account for probably around four-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(d) The Register's totals account for probably around three-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.

5. The reports from the customs officials show 9,868 individuals leaving for North America from December, 1773 to March, 1776. Why must this number must be adjusted?
(a) The customs officials did not count correctly.
(b) One year is left out of the count.
(c) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(d) Many women are pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those between what ages typically travel independent of families?

2. What is the age that individuals could legally bind themselves as indentured servants?

3. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.

4. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done with the raw data from this collection?

2. What does Bailyn say about where the emigrants migrated the most?

3. After skilled artisans such as those trained in construction, what group do the colonists seek?

4. What does Bailyn say about the force of attraction to North America?

5. Who is John Powell? What does he suggest?

6. What does Bailyn say about the number of people leaving for North America from December 1773 to March 1776 and those who are not emigrants?

7. What is the result of the collection of statistical information?

8. Describe the spreading of the population in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War. What is the significance of this?

9. How are the provinces different from the urban areas?

10. From where do people emigrate in the pre-Revolutionary years? To where do they immigrate?

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