Week 2

Week 2 response paper

Write a response paper of 2-3 pages on AMERICAN LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1607–1692 with following questions to be addressed in the paper. Why was family life in New England so different from family life in the South?Why did slavery grow to be such an important institution in colonial America? What were the effects of slavery on the Africans who were brought to the New World? What were the effects of the Africans on the New World?Were the Salem witch trials a peculiar, aberrant moment in an age of superstition, or did they reflect common human psychological and social anxieties that could appear in any age? How harshly should those who prosecuted the witches be condemned? How did African Americans work to adapt their native traditions under the conditions of New World slavery? What kinds of traditions were most successfully preserved?