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According to John Winthrop’s sermon, the Puritans had “entered into a covenant” with God, meaning that they

The apparent uniformity of the big-game-hunter (Clovis) culture was replaced by great cultural diversity after the Paleo-Indians began devoting more energy to

The Aztecs of the Valley of Mexico

In 1492 what distinguished Christopher Columbus from other navigators was

Puritans believed that women

Older women were less likely to be convicted of being witches because they were often well-respected in Puritan society. 

Free Soilers

In the U.S. South, a “planter” was considered a person who owned at least __________ slaves.

According to republican ideals of the late eighteenth century, women and mothers were most important in

European strains of Smallpox are believed to have decimated nearly 90% of the Native American population by the 16th century, creating the world’s worst demographic disaster. Scholars such as Jared Diamond argue that the reason Smallpox spread so rapidly in the Americas was