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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. After registering, were vessels free to pick up passengers without registering them?
(a) Only ten passengers.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

4. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.
(a) Seven.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is also increasing between industries?

2. Do those in the colonies have to struggle to maintain the forms of civilized existence that were present elsewhere?

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

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

5. During this time, there was also an array of lobbyists working for land speculators and western trading interests, led by whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is commonly believed by 1773?

3. What is eighteenth century America like?

4. What is the age range for emigrants? What is important about this?

5. What does Bailyn say about the vessels traveling to America?

6. Who were the people most available for labor?

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

8. 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?

9. How do most of the emigrants travel? Why?

10. Who is the Earl of Hillsborough?

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