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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. These characteristics are shared with other societies, but is America's way of life unique?

2. The flow of individuals into New York and North Carolina seem to form small communities composed largely of _________ working the land.

3. What closes the trans-Appalachian west, except to licensed traders, and created the colonies of Quebec, East and West Florida?

4. What happens to the bill for which the Earl of Hillsborough fought?

5. Is child labor popular in the silk industry at this time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bailyn say about where the emigrants migrated the most?

2. Who is the Earl of Hillsborough?

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

4. How are the provinces different from the urban areas?

5. How is the unending demand for labor satisfied?

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

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

8. What is the age range for emigrants? What is important about this?

9. Describe the spreading of the population in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War. What is the significance of this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Indentured servants are often bought and sold once they reach the colonies.

Part 1) Why did this purchase happen here? Why was it not done earlier?

Part 2) How might this have affected both the servants and the sellers? Why?

Part 3) Why would someone become an indentured servant? Would you become one?

Essay Topic 2

An overwhelming number of Scottish immigrants ended up in specific colonies.

Part 1) How has this happened? How does this parallel the settling of other colonies?

Part 2) How is this settling reflected in various cultural societies' settlements today?

Part 3) How have these Scottish people helped to create the culture in these areas today?

Essay Topic 3

Many people involved in the expansion of the colonies suffer hardships.

Part 1) What hardships do they suffer? Why do they suffer these hardships?

Part 2) Do they realize the risks they undertake? Why or why not?

Part 3) What type of person must one be to be settler? Why?

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