True or false?
gender was a significant factor in the persecution of adultery, women subject to execution; however, class was not. if a married woman in geneva during the early-modern period took a lover and he was of the servant class, he would only receive the minimum adultery punishment of weeks or months in jail as upper class men might face.

true or false?
while hysteria was an emotional disorder thought to affect mostly working-class women, more bourgeois women were admitted to asylums for nymphomania

to act quickly in times of danger to the united states

because you have to act quickly if you want to live/survive.

from the religious point of view, the conflicts began because of the enmity between catholic and protestants. in 1649, at the insistence of baltimore, the colonial assembly approved the act of religious tolerance, the first law in the colonies granting freedom of worship, though only for christians. in 1654, however, with the protestants of maryland in the majority, the act was revoked. the almost civil war broke out and order was not restored until 1658, when lord baltimore was returned to power.

on the issue of class conflict, the chesapeake region offered few economic opportunities to contract employees who had served their term of obligation. even with the small amount of capital needed to grow tobacco, former hired servants at best became subsistence farmers, a mature class for those called to rebellion, such as those proposed by nathaniel bacon. as the number of new hired workers declined because of limited chances of progress and reports of severe treatment, they were replaced by african slaves.

from the racial point of view, after 1660, the chesapeake colonies imposed laws that defined slavery as a lifelong and hereditary condition based on race. this made slaves profitable because planters could rely not only on their work but also on their children. the slave population, which numbered four thousand in virginia and maryland in 1675, grew significantly by the end of the century.