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

2. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.

3. Most emigrants traveled ____________.

4. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?

5. The occupations and residences of those emigrating to New York and North Carolina are _____________ the previous colonies.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Why must the official totals be adjusted upward?

5. What is commonly believed by 1773?

6. How is the unending demand for labor satisfied?

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

8. What are the differences between Hillsborough and lobbyists such as Benjamin Franklin?

9. What does the author say about the silk industry?

10. What does the author discover about the gender of the emigrants?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An overwhelming number of Scottish immigrants ended up in specific colonies.

Part 1) How has this happened? How does this parallel the settling of other colonies?

Part 2) How is this settling reflected in various cultural societies' settlements today?

Part 3) How have these Scottish people helped to create the culture in these areas today?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Other areas of the British Isles do not see a mass exodus.

Part 1) Why do they not see a mass exodus?

Part 2) How are they still affected by mass exoduses elsewhere?

Part 3) Is there still a connection between these locations and the areas where many people are leaving? If so, what is this connection? If not, why is there no connection?

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