4. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 4: A New Commercial Culture in Boston

**Quiz for Document 4.1: Ship Arrivals and Departures at Boston (1707)**

Quiz for Document 4.1: Ship Arrivals and Departures at Boston (1707)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. The log of arrivals and departures at Boston harbor supports which of the following conclusions about Boston in the early eighteenth century?

Boston remained the isolated colonial outpost it had been since the 1630s.

Boston played an important role in trade with the other British colonies.

Boston was at the center of a boycott of goods from the British West Indies.

Boston was still highly dependent on goods imported from England.

2. That Boston’s newspaper published logs like this suggests which of the following conclusions?

Bostonians were suspicious of outsiders.

Most Bostonians were more interested in religion than commerce.

Few Bostonians had enough financial resources to buy newspapers or other consumer goods.

Many Bostonians were interested in who was coming to town and what they brought.

3. What does this log suggest about the state of commercial development in the other British North American colonies in the early eighteenth century?

Boston’s commercial status was far superior to that of the other British North American colonies.

New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Newfoundland all had lively commercial ports.

Most British North American colonies exported many more goods to Boston than they imported from the city.

The British North American colonies were still agricultural and depended on Boston for manufactured goods.

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