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Questions For Class Discussion

Questions For Class Discussion
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 - 1692

  1. Why was family life in New England so different from family life in the South?

  2. Why did slavery grow to be such an important institution in colonial America? What were the effects of slavery on the Africans who were brought to the New World? What were the effects of the Africans on the New World?

  3. What was attractive and unattractive about the closely knit New England way of life?

  4. Were the Salem witch trials a peculiar, aberrant moment in an age of superstition, or did they reflect common human psychological and social anxieties that could appear in any age? How harshly should those who prosecuted the witches be condemned?

  5. Considering the extreme differences during the seventeenth-century between New England and the southern colonies, was the Civil War inevitable?
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