What explanations have historians offered for the Salem witch trials?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Some historians stress strained relations between farm families and urban residents.
2. Others emphasize the zeal and gullibility of investigators.
3. Some commentators focus on the psychological dimensions of the accusations and trials.
4. It is also possible that the trauma created by King William's War played a role.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following was not a way to meet the population's resource needs during the Archaic Age?
A. Trade B. Colonies C. Land assignments D. Warfare E. All of these were ways of meeting the population's needs.
The penalty for a white servant who ran away with an African slave in South Carolina was __________
A) death B) banishment C) a fine D) imprisonment
Seventeenth-century Quakers were known for their ________
A) aggressive and overbearing personalities B) belief in humility and pacifism C) concept of predestination D) unwillingness to seek the conversion of others E) belief in the necessity of an educated clergy