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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. The reports from the customs officials show 9,868 individuals leaving for North America from December, 1773 to March, 1776. Why must this number must be adjusted?
(a) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(b) Many women are pregnant.
(c) One year is left out of the count.
(d) The customs officials did not count correctly.
2. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is tired of his job.
(c) He is overwhelmed with his job.
(d) He is emigrating to America.
3. This colony and the adjacent islands totaled over how many square miles and had a population of less than 18,000 in early 1774?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 22,000.
4. In the pre-Revolutionary days, what is the largest urban center in the western world?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Edinburgh.
5. What other location would sellers avoid?
(a) Places that are too close to the water.
(b) Places that are too far inland.
(c) Places that make the servants uncomfortable.
(d) Places that are difficult for buyers to get to.
Short Answer Questions
1. Besides not making money quickly, why else does a seller not want the "goods" to remain in his care?
2. Families migrating together tended to go to New York, North Carolina, and _________.
3. What has long existed in the silk industry?
4. What did the British do this to these settlers?
5. Detailed records connected to the Register are __________.
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