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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. Most available for labor are who?

2. More than half of the migrants to Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are ____________.

3. More children below the age of ten and more _________________ departed from Scotland.

4. The average ages for immigrants to the colonies range from a low of ________________ to a high of 40.5 for Canada.

5. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is wrong with this survey?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. How is the unending demand for labor satisfied?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A large number of the immigrants is young and male.

Part 1) How is this proven? Why are so many young and male?

Part 2) How might this have affected the development of the colonies?

Part 3) How have these young men helped make our country what it is today?

Essay Topic 2

Many changes occur prior to the Revolution in the American colonies.

Part 1) What are two of these changes? Why do they take place?

Part 2) What is significant about these changes?

Part 3) How are these changes reflected in our world 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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