This week contains multiple discussion questions that you are required to answer

This week contains multiple discussion questions that you are required to answer.  
Unit 2:4
How did gender affect an individual’s experiences in the northern colonies? How were the lives of men and women different? What role did class and race play?
Historians have offered multiple ways of understanding the events at Salem in 1691–1692. What is your explanation of the events? Why do you think so many of the accused were women?
Your answers must be a minimum of 250 words for this posting. Be sure to cite your sources properly in your posting. For example, use (American Social History Project—ASHP, 22) as a parenthetical citation for a quote or summary of information on page 22 of the Who Built America? textbook. Use (“Salem Witch Trials,” par. 5)) for information or quotes from the website where you give the paragraph in which you found the information instead of the page number.
Who Built America, chapter 3
Link to free textbook borrowing textbook reading is chapter 3
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