Today we completed discussion of Chapter 3, addressing the witch hunt phenomenon in New England in the seventeenth century, the Great Awakening and the attendant evangelism in the eighteenth century, the countervailing force of Enlightenment ideas during the same era, the growth of colonial education and literacy (with almanacs second only to the Bible as popular books), the importation of English common law, and the local focus of colonies that were largely self-governing despite the fact that Royal Governors, appointed by the King, formally presided.