01: Instructor-Graded Assignment

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Please read "Written Work" and "Sample Essay and Short-Answer Questions" on the course overview before beginning your first assignment.
 
  1. One colonial settler described life in America as “a Paradise on earth for women.” Assess the validity of that comment as an accurate statement about the situation of women in the English colonies before 1763. Your answer should consider the legal status of women, their economic opportunities and limitations, and their personal situation in the emerging society. Illustrate whatever position you adopt with specific examples from the reading.
     
  2. Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following:
    1. Anne Hutchinson
    2. Civil Death
    3. Salem witch trials
    4. Anne Bradstreet
    5. free women of color

     

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