Puritan Life in Salem Village:
1. Why did the Puritan's leave England and venture to a new land?
They left in order to practice more freely, they structured a social order around their church, they were not interested in freedom of all religion.
2. Explain how the Puritan's felt about freedom of religion.
They believe that by having freedom people would get under Satan's influence.
3. How important is the church in Puritan society? Explain.
Church was the most important point in a society, societies were built around the churches because they were the most important places of it.
4. What is excommunication?
Excommunication means to get "expelled" out of a church and/or religion
5. Why were church leaders so influential/powerful in Puritan communities?
Church leaders were really influential because they used threatenings such as excommunication because of satan's influence under the human mind.
6. How does religion today compare to the Puritan's idea of religion?
In this moment religion is not the religion in many ways because you can be of any religion you want and they can make the choice about how intense and seriously they take it.
7. Why was witchcraft often the explanation for illness?
Because they didn't know much about medicine, therefore the things that where unknown where blamed to the witchcraft.
8. What scientific explanation was given by Caporeal as to the cause of the mysterious behavior in Salem?
That the town was divided into two one who opposed appointment and the ones who where in favor or Rev. Parris. The ones of favor where in control of the trials and the ones who didn't spoke against he trials.
Salem Witch Trials
Puritan Children
1. Describe the life of a Puritan Child.
Children were expected to behave on the same street codes as the adults do chores and works any show of emotion was discourage and any disobedience was severely punished. Boys had a little bit more freedom than girls because they were allowed to craft things while girls had to stay at home and work. Children learn how to read but people only owned religious texts and the bible.
Religion and Witchcraft
2. Describe a Puritan church service.
It was against the law not to attend church men and women were separated within the mass individual differences were frowned upon the church even controlled the way people got dressed.
3. What did the Puritan's believe about God and their church?
Puritans believe that all sins should be punished, and when someone suffered it was because they sin so puritans wouldn´t help.
4. What do you think was the main message the Puritan's tried to convey to its parishioners?
The Puritan church tried to make people be afraid and this was to keep them in line
5. Why was everone so fearful? What were they afraid of?
Beacuse church enforced the idea of the devil and people thought of it as real as god
6. How did the Puritans feel about individuality?
It was god will
Economic and Social Divisions
7. Differentiate between Salem Town and Salem Village.
They were apart beacuse of their social and economic statuses
8. Explain the reason for the friction between Salem Town and Salem Village.
Salem town collected crops from salem village as taxes
9. What role did the new minister, Reverend Parris, play in the Salem witch trials?
This envious man claimed that the thriving of Salem Village was the devil's influence.
Joseph McCarthy:
1. Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A U.S senator who claimed that more than 200 communists had infiltrated into the U.S
2. What feelings of the American psyche or events of the time allowed for McCarthyism to become such a prominent movement in the 1950s?
World War II had just ended, so this threatened with the U.S
3. What effect did McCarthyism have on artists and entertainers?
Many of them were accused of being communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working. Some had their passports taken away and others even were taken to prison because they refused to say names of other communists. With a simple trial their careers went down the gutter.
1. Why did the Puritan's leave England and venture to a new land?
They left in order to practice more freely, they structured a social order around their church, they were not interested in freedom of all religion.
2. Explain how the Puritan's felt about freedom of religion.
They believe that by having freedom people would get under Satan's influence.
3. How important is the church in Puritan society? Explain.
Church was the most important point in a society, societies were built around the churches because they were the most important places of it.
4. What is excommunication?
Excommunication means to get "expelled" out of a church and/or religion
5. Why were church leaders so influential/powerful in Puritan communities?
Church leaders were really influential because they used threatenings such as excommunication because of satan's influence under the human mind.
6. How does religion today compare to the Puritan's idea of religion?
In this moment religion is not the religion in many ways because you can be of any religion you want and they can make the choice about how intense and seriously they take it.
7. Why was witchcraft often the explanation for illness?
Because they didn't know much about medicine, therefore the things that where unknown where blamed to the witchcraft.
8. What scientific explanation was given by Caporeal as to the cause of the mysterious behavior in Salem?
That the town was divided into two one who opposed appointment and the ones who where in favor or Rev. Parris. The ones of favor where in control of the trials and the ones who didn't spoke against he trials.
Salem Witch Trials
Puritan Children
1. Describe the life of a Puritan Child.
Children were expected to behave on the same street codes as the adults do chores and works any show of emotion was discourage and any disobedience was severely punished. Boys had a little bit more freedom than girls because they were allowed to craft things while girls had to stay at home and work. Children learn how to read but people only owned religious texts and the bible.
Religion and Witchcraft
2. Describe a Puritan church service.
It was against the law not to attend church men and women were separated within the mass individual differences were frowned upon the church even controlled the way people got dressed.
3. What did the Puritan's believe about God and their church?
Puritans believe that all sins should be punished, and when someone suffered it was because they sin so puritans wouldn´t help.
4. What do you think was the main message the Puritan's tried to convey to its parishioners?
The Puritan church tried to make people be afraid and this was to keep them in line
5. Why was everone so fearful? What were they afraid of?
Beacuse church enforced the idea of the devil and people thought of it as real as god
6. How did the Puritans feel about individuality?
It was god will
Economic and Social Divisions
7. Differentiate between Salem Town and Salem Village.
They were apart beacuse of their social and economic statuses
8. Explain the reason for the friction between Salem Town and Salem Village.
Salem town collected crops from salem village as taxes
9. What role did the new minister, Reverend Parris, play in the Salem witch trials?
This envious man claimed that the thriving of Salem Village was the devil's influence.
Joseph McCarthy:
1. Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A U.S senator who claimed that more than 200 communists had infiltrated into the U.S
2. What feelings of the American psyche or events of the time allowed for McCarthyism to become such a prominent movement in the 1950s?
World War II had just ended, so this threatened with the U.S
3. What effect did McCarthyism have on artists and entertainers?
Many of them were accused of being communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working. Some had their passports taken away and others even were taken to prison because they refused to say names of other communists. With a simple trial their careers went down the gutter.