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What was the central question confronted by the Second Continental Congress when it began meeting in May 1775?

What percentage of individuals accused of witchcraft in Salem were women?

In the case of the market protest and the Hudson land-leasing protest, what action immediately preceded the protests?

What was the message of the Separate Baptists in the southern colonies in the mid-1700s?

In eighteenth-century cities, what did sailors and dockworkers have in common with shipowners and merchants?

What was the significance of Ethan Allen, William Prendergast, and their followers?

As the eighteenth century progressed, why were British colonists living longer lives?

Why was female gossip a tool used against some men in British North America?

How did Puritans in New England interpret the threat of Indian attacks and the ongoing cultural conflict in the late seventeenth century?

What led to heightened tensions in New Mexico between Spanish missionaries, encomenderos, and the Pueblo Indians in the 1670s?