Choose 2 of the 3 Question groups to answer.
In what way and why did women, especially those in Puritan communities, experience greater
freedoms and protections than their counterparts in Europe?
What were the causes of the Salem witchcraft trials? Was there any one cause in particular that is
necessary to explain the excesses of the episode?
During the seventeenth century, race-based slavery was very important in the New World. Discuss the
concept of blackness and how Europeans used it to attempt to justify their enslavement of Africans.