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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 13 Gulf and Delta.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes, in a few years.
(d) Maybe.

2. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

3. What is the age that individuals could legally bind themselves as indentured servants?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

4. Construction, and in particular what type of building, was also a large industry in the North American colonies?
(a) Shipbuilding.
(b) Homebuilding.
(c) Business construction.
(d) Wagon building.

5. Who provided much of the unskilled labor, particularly in the South, for the ironworks?
(a) Boys.
(b) Young children.
(c) Indentured servants.
(d) Slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ of the nuclear families consisted of only a husband and wife.

2. The ages of the emigrants tended to concentrate around what ages?

3. What does the Register also record?

4. In 1763, when almost all of the land east of the Mississippi River became the territory of what nation?

5. Where is a new British naval base and provincial capital built?

(see the answer key)

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