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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. A much smaller percentage was going where?

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

3. Of the 6,190 emigrants whose occupation is listed, only _____________ listed occupations that were considered "gentle."

4. These characteristics are shared with other societies, but is America's way of life unique?

5. Was it new that North America had been seen as a place of refuge?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why must the official totals be adjusted upward?

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

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

5. Who were the people most available for labor?

6. How is the unending demand for labor satisfied?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Registry is both faulty and useful.

Part 1) How is it faulty? How is it useful?

Part 2) Why is the information from the Registry important?

Part 3) How is this registry and this study on emigration important? How does it impact us today?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Many people involved in the expansion of the colonies suffer hardships.

Part 1) What hardships do they suffer? Why do they suffer these hardships?

Part 2) Do they realize the risks they undertake? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person must one be to be settler? Why?

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