How did Massachusetts evolve, both socially and economically during the seventeenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: This essay should begin with a discussion of the purposes behind the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a few examples detailing the religious expectations and communal focus of the colony. Students should then explain how commercial and secular issues became more important. Students should describe how succeeding generations lost the religious fervor that characterized the early settlers. Better students should be able to use the Salem trials as an example of the changing nature of Massachusetts society.
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The Agricultural Revolution resulted in all of the following except
A) sedentary farming. B) domestication of animals. C) the origins of myth and religion. D) the rise of small towns and villages. E) the development of new technologies to adapt plants and animals to human needs.
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A) white female suburban isolation B) infertility C) marital infidelity D) depression
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A. performing femininity B. sexualized femininity C. doing class D. feminized identity