The unique New England way of life was centered on
family, town, and the church. And the corresponding changes that affected this
comfortable social order in the late seventeenth century were:
Family: did everything they could to defend marriage and
family values
Church: jeremiad preaching and half-way covenant
<span>Town: Salem witch trials</span>
Language divergence occurs when a single language breaks into several different dialects, due to isolation of different groups of people over a long period of time.
