What role did the family play in the culture and society of early New England?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Early New Englanders believed God ordained the family for human benefit.
2. The ideal godly family was ruled by a patriarch.
3. New Englanders crossed the Atlantic in nuclear families, and this fact shaped the development of towns and community institutions.
4. New Englanders preserved local English customs more fully than their counterparts in the
Chesapeake region.
5. Early New England marriage patterns did not differ substantially from those in seventeenth-
century England.
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Explain the contributions made by women in the wartime work force, and describe the response of the public to their efforts.
What will be an ideal response?
The Investiture Controversy and the Unam Sanctum reflect the struggle for power between __________
A) kings and popes B) lords and serfs C) monks and priests D) clergy and laity
Americans began to suspect communist infiltration everywhere when Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that
A) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Soviet spies and had passed atomic secrets to the Soviets. B) he had a list of active Communist Party members who worked for the United States government. C) FDR's New Deal had been an attempt to convert the United States to communism. D) the Hollywood movie industry had been taken over by communists and was trying to convert Americans to communism through subliminal messages.