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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. What is the major problem of this survey?

2. To where do they immigrate?

3. Of the 8,613 emigrants whose sex was registered, about ____________ are males?

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

5. In New York and North Carolina, over eighty-five percent of migrants were Scots and were more likely to be __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done with the raw data from this collection?

2. Describe the spreading of the population in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War. What is the significance of this?

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

4. What is commonly believed by 1773?

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

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

7. What is eighteenth century America like?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Several possible solutions are considered for the emigration problem.

Part 1) What are these solutions? What are the pros and cons of each?

Part 2) Which solution is chosen? How successful is it?

Part 3) How does this solution affect Great Britain, the United States and Canada today?

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