View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As what do the colonies become known?

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

3. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

4. The emigrants listed in the Register sailed to America in how many different vessels?

5. What region has only a small need for additional workers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the provinces different from the urban areas?

3. Who is the Earl of Hillsborough?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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

Indentured servants are often bought and sold once they reach the colonies.

Part 1) Why did this purchase happen here? Why was it not done earlier?

Part 2) How might this have affected both the servants and the sellers? Why?

Part 3) Why would someone become an indentured servant? Would you become one?

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,212 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample