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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. At this time, most individuals concerned with emigration focused on what?

2. A much smaller percentage was going where?

3. What is the age that individuals could legally bind themselves as indentured servants?

4. How much regard is there for human suffering and rights?

5. After 1760 and the end of the war in North America, what happens to the colonies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must the official totals be adjusted upward?

2. What is eighteenth century America like?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does Bailyn say about the families who migrated together?

8. How do British officials initially feel about settlement of western lands in America or to emigration from Britain?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Workers face hardships during the emigration process.

Part 1) What hardships did they face? Why?

Part 2) How were they affected by the hardships? Does this affect the number of people emigrating? Why or why not?

Part 3) Why might someone continue through this tough emigration process? Why kept them from giving up? What does this say about those who immigrated to the Americas?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Patterns can be seen in the immigration to the colonies.

Part 1) What patterns can be seen?

Part 2) Why is the study of these patterns important? For what is it useful?

Part 3) How do these patterns affect us today?

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