Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!! I did get a lot of puritan information today, much of it from my text books and some from online (wikipedia nonetheless <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">), however, I am having trouble finding information about the culture during the revolutionary period (which seems to be a very broad period). I get that puritans were very obedient to the bible, that women had a PLACE in society... and so on. But there isn't much discussion about the society/culture during this time. Clearly it was a period of more freedom than during the puritan age, but am I at liberty to state that just from reading about the revolutionary war? i'm just talking this out here...sorry.
I've got #2 down pretty well (a lot of our homework covered this topic) and #4 as well (we had a lot of discussions and papers about women's roles over various periods) but I'm hitting a roadblock on 1 and 3. I'll go check out the links, and check out manifest destiny.
Thank you again for the help, I REALLY really appreciate it!!!