... insignificant young women were able to exert life and death power over the entire community." (Woloch, 30) John Demos a New England witchcraft historian writes "a hidden theme of the lives of seventeenth-century women seems to reveal an intense hostility of younger women toward the power and control of older women. It has also been suggested, middle-aged women often slightly deviant, may ... the community. The Salem witch trials were also used to keep women oppressed. Why were women (and especially women over the age of 40) signaled out and punished disproportionately in seventeenth-cen...

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... for each. The numerous wives were often known to live together in the same dwellings and be happy. Although few histories of the European settlements in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have acknowledged it, women played a key role in the development of the North American colonies. The first European outposts (St. Augustine, Jamestown, Quebec, Montreal, New Amsterdam) were ... . They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeen...

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... fifty years subsequent to the foundation and establishment of the English speaking colonies of North America the settlers were still quite content and largely self governed. By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. The standards for living in these colonies were amongst the ... Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century...

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... fifty years subsequent to the foundation and establishment of the English speaking colonies of North America the settlers were still quite content and largely self governed. By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. The standards for living in these colonies were amongst the ... Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century...

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... had lifted New England from a distant colony of starving settlers to an international commercial power... The members of the "codfish aristocracy," those who traced their roots back to the seventeenth century cod fisheries, had openly worshipped the fish as a symbol of their wealth (78-9)." Gloucester was completely made up of fishermen and ports in and around Boston were major trading posts ... ...

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... at the age of ten to fourteen and lasted about seven years. Some young boys were lucky enough to attend college. About half of the Harvard College graduates in the seventeenth century chose to become ministers. Puritans often attached a religious significance to the boy's choice of career. They referred to the choice as a "calling." This was a philosophy, which meant that god had ... ...

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... .info/NewEngland/Puritans.html http://www.usahistory.info/New-England/Massachusetts.html Gienapp, William E. Volume1: TO 1877 Nation of Nations Morgan, Edmund The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England , Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop Underwood, Devon Women's Roles in the American Colonial Period http://info-center.ccit.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part1.htm ...

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... Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. They were supported by slave labor and farming, for the most part. The government of the colonies were infested by planters and farmers in the late seventeenth century. The primary seaport for the southern colonies was Charleston, South Carolina, a place where the growth of commerce began. Settlers would learn of ways to combine agriculture with commerce to better ... ...

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