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According to New England Puritans, witchcraft:

Answer: was due entirely to exposure to Catholicism.

B. resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.

was restricted to Salem.

was perfectly acceptable when it was used for proper purposes.

was punishable by hanging unless it was used to reinforce men s standing and God s will.

Olaudah Equiano:

Answer demonstrated in his writings that he perfectly fit the stereotype that blacks were savages incapable of becoming civilized.

led several Central American slave insurrections before his death.

was popular with Europeans for telling them that their culture was far superior to that of Africans like himself.

was one of the few children of African-American and Native American descent ever to be the chief of his Indian tribe.

E.wrote the eighteenth century s most widely read account by a slave of a slave s own experiences.

Revivalist preachers during the Great Awakening frequently:

Answer formed influential organizations dedicated to abolishing slavery.

praised Deism.

sought to avoid emotional styles of preaching.

accepted financial support from colonial governments.

E.criticized commercial society.

The participants in South Carolina s Stono Rebellion:

Answer A.included some who apparently had been soldiers in Africa.

were unsuccessful because of divisions over language and ethnicity.

surrendered without any bloodshed and agreed to pledge loyalty to the colony.

laid siege to Charleston but had to retreat when the Royal Navy brought reinforcements.

By the eighteenth-century, Indian societies:

Answer A.were well integrated into the British imperial system.

were viewed in the same way by traders, British officials, and farmers.

benefited from the Walking Purchase of 1737.

never warred

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