History of Massachusetts

SALEM WITCH TRIALS Over three hundred years ago, the people in and around Salem, Massachusetts, took part in the most massive witch hunt in American history. The Salem Witch Trials were a terrible time for the little town of Salem. The Trials began in the Spring of 1692 when a group of girls claimed they were possessed by the devil. This sent panic all throughout the Village of Salem and led to more than two hundred local citizens being accused of witchcraft (Worthen 1 of 3). The Trials came…

react. To the life threatening things like with what was happening. The jury found 6 men out of 8 not guilty why 2 were found guilty with manslaughter. In the same year John Adams was elected to represent for Massachusetts in the first Constitutional Congress in 1774 with 4 other men history book pg.142. In 1775 the Congress made a Continental Army that then made George Washington the leader and founder of the army. In 1776 the Congress approved of Adams resolution of each colony over its own…

Selfishness of Religion Arthurs Millers play, The Crucible, highlights the display of religion that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 and resulted in the now infamous Salem Witch Trials. Although the play is fiction, Miller portrayed a realistic use of religion for personal gain by making parallel examples of the characters of the play to actual religious conquests throughout history. Throughout the play, numerous characters use religion for their advantage and their own benefit.…

1838. It is known that Bowditch was a real person, but were the characters that interacted with him, places he went and events that happened to him in Jean Lee Latham’s book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch also real? Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in Salem, Massachusetts with his brothers, sisters, parents and grandmother. He attended school until the age of 12 years old, when he apprenticed at Ropes and Hodges ship chandlery,which would last nine years, in 1785. This was where he learned about the…

of the Appalachians to the central government. This helped create a feeling of national unity. The Articles also encouraged the states to work together. The Massachusetts government forced high taxes, which was the catalyst for a small militia to be formed mixed up of a bunch of farmers and regular town folks. This was recognized in history as Shays ' uprising. Shays required that foreclosures, and bad mortgages were to be abandoned. Militias were called upon and they readily concealed the…

The Salem witch trials victims: Who were they? History of Massachusetts, 19 Aug. 2015. Web. 14 Sept. 2016. Blumberg, Jess. A brief history of the Salem witch trials. Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2007. Web. 14 Sept. 2016. Boundless. The Salem witch trials. Boundless, 9 June 2016. Web. 14 Sept. 2016. Linder, Doug. Salem witchcraft trials: List of dead…

they could create a pure version of Christianity elsewhere. Winthrop brought one thousand men and women crossed the Atlantic to Massachusetts Bay and he preached a sermon on the ship Arbella, also known as the “City upon a Hill”. It has been said, that the Puritans fled because their belief was becoming jeopardized. Puritanism played a great role in the English history during the seventeenth century. Therefore, I believe Puritanism is one of the best religions…

shows the significant role of Concord, Massachusetts, in the fight for independence through the perspective of the common person, in his book, The Minutemen and their World. Gross presents Concord as a town that played a great role in the revolution, while altering the community forever. Concord life is explained before, during, and after, “A shot heard ‘round the world.” Although Gross supports his ideas with numerous sources of evidence, he states that history is not simply an argument. Gross…

Witches are viewed in modern eyes as a typical halloween costume with little significance. In reality, though, most witches in American history have not been anywhere close to that! Most were common folk falsely accused of witchcraft. The influence of historical witchcraft is found in literature, movies, and shaping decades of American history. The origin of the term ‘witch’ was “... adopted by the early Christian church as a way to label and condemn the practitioners of the ancient pagan…

the British Parliament onto their American colonies led an uprising, in efforts of the colonist to break free of the queen’s rule. The first American colony was found 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia. The thirteen original colonies were Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, North and South Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. The early colonial eras had many problems dealing with the European balance of power and the…