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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bailyn argues that for the men a picture develops of lower middle and working class men for whom emigration was what?

2. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?

3. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?

4. Construction, and in particular what type of building, was also a large industry in the North American colonies?

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. Who is the Earl of Hillsborough?

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

3. Why must the official totals be adjusted upward?

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

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

6. What is known about correlation between age and where the emigrants migrated?

7. What happens after 1760 and the end of the war in North America?

8. What does the author say about how the immigrants arrived in the Americas?

9. How is the unending demand for labor satisfied?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The situation in New York is similar in many ways to the events in other colonies.

Part 1) Describe the situation in New York. How is it like the situations in other colonies?

Part 2) Why do these similarities between the colonies exist?

Part 3) What is the purpose of this chapter? What is the significance of ending the book with this chapter?

Essay Topic 2

The British see emigration as a problem.

Part 1) What is emigration? How is it a problem for the British?

Part 2) What does this problem reveal about the British?

Part 3) Is emigration still a problem for some countries? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Convicts and indentured servants are laborers in the colonies.

Part 1) How would convicts and indentured servants get to the Americas? Why would they come to the Americas?

Part 2) Describe their work. What did employees think of them? Why?

Part 3) How does the use of this cheap labor affect others?

Part 4) How significant was their work? How does it affect North America today?

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