HIST 1100 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture DISSENTERS: RELIGIOUS AND OTHERWISEI. Was Colonial New England a Golden Age For Women? A. Religion as a Democratizing Force1. Women as Saints2. Literacy for Women3. Women’s Position in the ChurchB. Subsistence Family Economy as a Democratizing Force 1. Increased Value of Labor2. Increased Life ExpectancyC. Changes in the Legal Status of Women: Feme Couvert 1. Separate Examination2. Dower Rights3. Feme Sole4. Harmonious Relations: The GoodwifeI. The Case Against New England as a Golden Age: Internal Dissent A. Why are all the “exceptional” women religious deviants?B. Ann Hutchinson, the Antinomian Crisis, and the Question of the Hydrofoil Mole, 1636C. Women as Witches, the Salem Witchcraft Crisis, 1692, and the Problem of EuropeanizationOutline of Current Lecture - Taking the Forest- A world of Fields and Fences- That Wilderness Should Turn a MartCurrent LectureChapter 5- A disease knocked out most of the Indian populations- Trade was mostly based on wampums which were traded to the Europeans for guns- Indians saw the goods more as a status item than functionality.- Later Europeans just started to kill the Indians rather than to trade because they put themselves at risk when they kept trading weapons to themo Thought they were getting too powerfulThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Chapter 6- Deforestation caused many problems in the New world:o Reduction of edge-dwelling specieso Trees such as white cedar and white pine were reducedo Areas where the forests were completely destroyed, it was hotter in the summer and colder in the wintero Water-holding capacity of the soil was decreasedChapter 7- Destruction of crop lando By swine and planting the same crop over and over- Put fences up as a way to keep cattle ino Swine were able to roam freely for awhile until They got out of hand and started to affect the soil, so a law was passed to keep them fenced in- Fish was used to fertilizeo Stank- Ashes was used to fertilizeo Wasted lots and lots of lumberChapter 8- The Europeans were pretty much self-destructing the land that they used- The land would be good for a certain amount of time but it would eventually give out and they would not have anything
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