1. What are the concerns of social history?
2. Discuss the culture the first settlers of New England brought with them from England.
3. What is important about the common fields system and the gathered village?
4. How did the first generations of New Englanders adapt to the new environment in which they found themselves? What was the new environment.
5. How did agriculture shape the nature of family and community life in New England?
6. Describe life in rural New England in general terms. Include family life, work, and community institutions like the town meeting.
6a. How was urban New England, the larger seaport towns different from rural New England?
7. What role does the desire for order play in Connecticut (and all New England) in 1690?
8. How well does Richard Bushman sustain his thesis that "… the law and authority embodied in governing institutions gave way under the impact first of economic ambitions and later of the religious impulses of the Great Awakening"?
9. What role does "economic ambition" play in colonial New England? How does this change from first settlement to the eve of the Revolution?
10. What is the Great Awakening, what are its roots in New England's social and economic development, and what is its impact on society?
11. In what ways is "Yankee" Connecticut different from "Puritan" Connecticut? Outline the process by which this transformation took place.