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

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

3. What region has only a small need for additional workers?
(a) Florida.
(b) New England.
(c) Maine.
(d) The South.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John Tompkyns' job?

2. What is commonly believed by 1773?

3. In the pre-Revolutionary days, what is the largest urban center in the western world?

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

5. What happens to the bill for which the Earl of Hillsborough fought?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the Earl of Hillsborough?

4. What is known about most of the families who emigrated?

5. How important is the construction industry at this time?

6. Who were the people most available for labor?

7. What does the author say about the iron industry?

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

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

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

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