Witchcraft Scares

1. Explain why there were no major witchcraft scares in the Chesapeake colonies and no uprising like Bacon’s Rebellion in New England. Consider the possible social, economic, and religious causes of both phenomena.

2. Why did Britain switch to a Southern military strategy? Why did that strategy ultimately fail?

3. In what ways did the emerging industrial economy conflict with artisan republicanism? How did wage laborers respond to the new economy?

4 In 1860, the institution of slavery was firmly entrenched in the United States; by 1865, it was dead. How did this happen? How did Union policy toward slavery and enslaved people change over the course of the war? Why did it change?