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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) At first.

2. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?
(a) The Register's totals account for probably around one-fifth of the total number of British emigrants.
(b) The Register's totals account for probably around four-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(c) The Register's totals account for probably around three-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(d) The Register's totals account for probably around two-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.

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

4. The average ages for immigrants to the colonies range from a low of ________________ to a high of 40.5 for Canada.
(a) 20.5 for Massachusetts.
(b) 18.7 for North Carolina.
(c) 15. 3 for Virginia.
(d) 27.8 for New York.

5. The emigrants listed in the Register sailed to America in how many different vessels?
(a) 402.
(b) 302.
(c) 102.
(d) 202.

6. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.
(a) Pre-industrial, pre-urban, and pre-humanitarian.
(b) More industrial, urban, and humane than most of Europe.
(c) Much like the British Isles.
(d) Ahead of its time.

7. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Textile work.
(c) Pottery.
(d) Cleaning.

8. The English migrants most often went to Pennsylvania, Maryland and ________.
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Nova Scotia.

9. What other jobs had also become unstable?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Painting employment.
(c) Communication fields.
(d) Agricultural employment.

10. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?
(a) Along the Atlantic coast.
(b) North and south.
(c) To Florida.
(d) The backcountry of the coastal colonies and trans-Appalachian west.

11. Building in general accounts for much of the recruitment of artisans from where?
(a) Nova Scotia.
(b) Abroad.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) France.

12. Do there appear to be concentrations of indentured servants in particular occupations settling in certain colonies?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Not at first.

13. The information sent to where is sent directly to the Treasury in London without any editing or summarization?
(a) Dublin.
(b) London.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Paris.

14. What is the major problem of this survey?
(a) There is no legal requirement for vessels carrying emigrants to register with customs.
(b) Information is given by word of mouth.
(c) There are many stowaways.
(d) Most people cannot write to fill out the paperwork.

15. Most emigrants traveled ____________.
(a) In groups.
(b) In pairs.
(c) Alone.
(d) With families.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Bailyn turns his attention to where the emigrants migrated to in North America. How does he argue that they travel to all the colonies?

4. Why does this proclamation aim to slow expansion?

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

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