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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Hillsborough take on the key post of secretary of state for the colonies?

3. On the verge of the Revolution, the American colonies were producing what percentage of the world's iron supply or about 30,000 tons annually?

4. What does the Earl of Hillsborough grasp?

5. What is also increasing between industries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the result of the collection of statistical information?

2. How do British officials initially feel about settlement of western lands in America or to emigration from Britain?

3. Who were the people most available for labor?

4. How important is the construction industry at this time?

5. Who is John Powell? What does he suggest?

6. What are the differences between Hillsborough and lobbyists such as Benjamin Franklin?

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

8. What does Bailyn say about the families who migrated together?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Patterns can be seen in the immigration to the colonies.

Part 1) What patterns can be seen?

Part 2) Why is the study of these patterns important? For what is it useful?

Part 3) How do these patterns affect us today?

Essay Topic 2

Bailyn discusses Nova Scotia.

Part 1) What does he say about Nova Scotia? Why does she discuss Nova Scotia?

Part 2) How does Nova Scotia compare to other colonies?

Part 3) What is significant about the information Bailyn provides about Nova Scotia? How is Nova Scotia today affected by emigration over 200 years ago?

Essay Topic 3

Convicts and indentured servants are laborers in the colonies.

Part 1) How would convicts and indentured servants get to the Americas? Why would they come to the Americas?

Part 2) Describe their work. What did employees think of them? Why?

Part 3) How does the use of this cheap labor affect others?

Part 4) How significant was their work? How does it affect North America today?

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