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*Two answers are too similar to each other.  Both cannot be correct.

*Two answers are too similar to each other.  Both cannot be correct.

:When you eliminate wrong answers, cross out their corresponding letter on the exam.  Try to cross out all the wrong answers except for two.  If you guess at that point, you have a 50% chance of being correct.  Every time you eliminate an answer choice, your chance of answering correctly increases greatly.

:When you eliminate wrong answers, cross out their corresponding letters on the exam.  Try to cross out all the wrong answers except for two.  If you guess at that point, you have a 50% chance of being correct.  Every time you eliminate an answer choice, your chance of answering correctly increases greatly.

'''First Impression''':  Go with your first impression unless you have a good reason to change it.  More often than not, your first impression is right.  Don't outsmart yourself.  There are no trick questions on these exams.  There are traps to avoid falling into, but not tricks.  Don't second-guess yourself into changing a correct answer into an incorrect one.

'''First Impression''':  Go with your first impression unless you have a good reason to change it.  More often than not, your first impression is right.  Don't outsmart yourself.  There are no trick questions on these exams.  There are traps to avoid falling into, but not tricks.  Don't second-guess yourself into changing a correct answer into an incorrect one.

== Colonial History  ==

== Colonial History  ==

During the colonial period, each colony had its own separate government.  They functioned like different countries.  There were no restrictions on travel, but if someone said the wrong thing in another colony they might end up in trouble, as many non-[[Puritans]] did in [[Massachusetts]].

During the colonial period, each colony had its own separate government.  The colonies functioned like different countries.  There were no restrictions on travel, but if someone said the wrong thing in another colony they might end up in trouble, as many non-[[Puritans]] did in [[Massachusetts]].

The only union before the [[American Revolution]] was the [[United Colonies of New England]], which existed from 1643 to 1684 in the northeast.  It consisted of a union of Massachusetts, Plymouth, [[Connecticut]] and New Haven in order to fight war and address interstate disputes.  Other than that, "disunity" existed among the colonies.

The only union before the [[American Revolution]] was the [[United Colonies of New England]], which existed from 1643 to 1684 in the northeast.  It consisted of a union of Massachusetts, Plymouth, [[Connecticut]] and New Haven in order to fight war and address interstate disputes.  Other than that, "disunity" existed among the colonies.

If you don't know the answers in all three cases, then please go back and read the first lecture.

If you don't know the answers in all three cases, then please go back and read the first lecture.

Upheaval occurred in England in 1688.  The people there overthrew [[King James II]], who was Catholic.  His daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange took the throne and reinstated Protestantism, and adopted the [[English Bill of Rights]].  A century later this would inspire the American Bill of Rights.

 

Let's proceed now.  Upheaval occurred in England in 1688.  The people there overthrew [[King James II]], who was Catholic.  His daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange took the throne and reinstated Protestantism, and adopted the [[English Bill of Rights]].  A century later this would inspire the American Bill of Rights.

In 1692, the [[Salem Witch Trials]] began in Puritan Massachusetts, in towns located north of Boston.  Several girls displayed symptoms suggesting they were possessed by the devil, and it remains a mystery to this day what caused their afflictions, or even if they were play acting.  Their doctor, after examining them, determined that the only cause was supernatural.  The community became suspicious of an Indian slave from Barbados in the Caribbean, named Tituba, who had been telling stories of voodoo and witchcraft and even fed a "witchcake" to a dog (at her master's instructions) to ward off the devil.  The girls told the same details about how the devil visited them, including seeing "witches flying through the winter mist."  Tituba first denied being a witch, but then "confessed" that she was a witch and named other townswomen (including a tavern owner) who she said were witches working with her.  Tituba declared that a tall man from Boston, perhaps Satan, visited her and sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog, asking her to do his work.  She said she had flown through the air on poles with the other witches she named, and could not obtain counseling from the minister because the devil had blocked her path.<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ACCT.HTM</ref>

In 1692, the [[Salem Witch Trials]] began in Puritan Massachusetts, in towns located north of Boston.  Several girls displayed symptoms suggesting they were possessed by the devil, and it remains a mystery to this day what caused their afflictions, or even if they were play acting.  Their doctor, after examining them, determined that the only cause was supernatural.  The community became suspicious of an Indian slave from Barbados in the Caribbean, named Tituba, who had been telling stories of voodoo and witchcraft and even fed a "witchcake" to a dog (at her master's instructions) to ward off the devil.  The girls told the same details about how the devil visited them, including seeing "witches flying through the winter mist."  Tituba first denied being a witch, but then "confessed" that she was a witch and named other townswomen (including a tavern owner) who she said were witches working with her.  Tituba declared that a tall man from Boston, perhaps Satan, visited her and sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog, asking her to do his work.  She said she had flown through the air on poles with the other witches she named, and could not obtain counseling from the minister because the devil had blocked her path.<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ACCT.HTM</ref>