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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The ages of the emigrants tended to concentrate around what ages?
(a) 20-24.
(b) 25-30.
(c) 10-15.
(d) 30-34.

3. What does Bailyn say about the force of attraction to North America?
(a) It is powerful for British emigrants.
(b) It is a waste of time for British emigrants.
(c) It is a a necessary evil for British emigrants.
(d) It is attractive to British emigrants.

4. What information is sometimes estimated by the customs officials?
(a) Gender.
(b) Trade.
(c) Race.
(d) Age.

5. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.
(a) Less than.
(b) Slightly less.
(c) Greater.
(d) The same.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?

2. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?

3. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

4. Why is the data source that the author mentions incomplete?

5. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about the iron industry?

2. After skilled artisans such as those trained in construction, what group do the colonists seek?

3. What does the author discover about the gender of the emigrants?

4. What does the author say about how the immigrants arrived in the Americas?

5. What is eighteenth century America like?

6. How do most of the emigrants travel? Why?

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

8. What does the author say about the silk industry?

9. What is known about correlation between age and where the emigrants migrated?

10. Why must the official totals be adjusted upward?

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