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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Chapter 16 New York: Swarming to the North.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over ___________ of the migrants went to mainland colonies.
(a) Eighty percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Twenty-five percent.
(d) Ten percent.

2. Where does James Hogg try to settle 200 Scottish Highlanders?
(a) In the backcountry of South Carolina.
(b) In the backcountry of New York.
(c) In the backcountry of Virginia.
(d) In the backcountry of North Carolina.

3. How are merchants able to barter with overseers?
(a) They are willing to give the overseers a great deal of money.
(b) The overseers will steal from the merchants.
(c) The overseers are eager to unload their charges.
(d) The merchants barter with trade goods.

4. The population of this colony and surrounding islands, although small, is what?
(a) Mostly Micmac.
(b) Ethnically diverse.
(c) Ethnically typical of other colonies.
(d) Mostly French.

5. What is the result of this collection?
(a) It explains what is faulty about Great Britain.
(b) It gives some basic information about those who emigrate.
(c) It illuminates what life is like after emigration.
(d) It illuminates the essential characteristics of the emigration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is commonly believed by 1773?

2. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.

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

4. The first settlers into the new British territory began in what year?

5. What location would sellers avoid for holding sales?

(see the answer key)

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