Nantucket, Massachusetts

New England’s land was covered with thick forests. While this made it difficult to farm, it provided the colonists with timber for building houses, ships, and tools. The natives taught the colonists how to hunt and trap the forest animals. The New England colonies suffered from a harsh climate. Colonists endured cold winters and mild summers. In addition to the thick forest, land became hilly and mountainous farther inland. The soil in New England was thin and rocky. Colonists used the rocks…

During the Salem witch trials, over two hundred people were accused of using witchcraft and twenty people were executed. Even those who were innocent were hanged because they refused to falsely confess to the crime that they didn’t commit. Those who were accused of using witchcraft and confessed to doing it would presumably have their name blackened in the village. Despite women being the most vulnerable to being accused of witchery during this period, the most responsible person for the…

Attics, we use them for storage. A great way to save space, and also one of the more "creeper" areas within our homes. So, this got me thinking, why do important scenes in horror movies take place within the attic? I mean, they are prevalent in in films that utilize them to house cursed objects, ghosts, spirits, demons, and ext. I studied this by picking 3 artifacts that use the attic well, review sources that analyze why or how the attic is used, how I did all this, and analyzing the scenes…

girls started displaying wild and peculiar behavior that a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed as bewitchment. The Salem Witch Trials had a negative impact on American history because it caused mass hysteria that spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, was fueled by residents suspicion of and resentment toward their neighbors, and the belief in the devil's practice of giving certain humans the power to harm others in return for their loyalty.…

What do we know about Salem? Salem is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Salem is a New England bedrock of history and is considered one of the most significant seaports in Puritan American history. Salem was founded in 1629 by the Puritans. Puritans, the people who did not recognize the authority of the official church and followers of Calvinism in England in the XVI-XVII centuries. The increase in the refugee population in Salem, led to a shortage of arable…

On March 5, 1770, a group of colonists and British Officials met on the street. A fight broke out leaving four colonists dead. This event later became known as the Boston Massacre, as it took place in Boston, arguably the most rebellious of the thirteen colonies. The relation between the colonists and the British was tense, as expected, insults were often passed back and forth between the two parties. But the most violent exchange was the Boston Massacre which left the freed black man Crispus…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about witch trials in Salem. In the play, the whole village goes crazy about witchcraft. Abigail Williams accused that most of the innocent women in the village are witches. In this essay, I will prove that Elizabeth Proctor is a loyal, for justice, and jealous women. As it was said before Elizabeth Proctor is a loyal woman, even though John Proctor confessed lechery, she couldn’t put his reputation down. She lied in court when Danforth asked her if her…

For the second Midterm I decided to answer the question that asked what were the early settlement patterns that each of the following followed; the Mid-Atlantic, the Chesapeake Region, and the Southern Colonies. I will compare and contrast the main ideas about each of the topic’s stated above. To start off this essay I will first talk about is the Mid-Atlantic, this part of the United States is consumed of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and…

The British soldiers were the aggressors because they terrified the Patriot by antagonizing them, terrifying innocent people, and killing the ones that were not armed. It displays how the british had no mercy for the Patriots. The British did what was necessary to make sure that they got what they came here to do. The Patriots also did some cruel actions towards the British. Everything that the British and Patriots had done, the British did far more worse force than the Patriots. To get the…

The dark forces where greed, lying and wanted people dead. The main girl that wanted people or a person dead was Abigail Williams. She wanted Elizabeth Proctor dead so she will be John Proctors wife. John and Abby had an affair and Abby wanted Proctor to be with her for the rest of her life. So Abby went with Tituba and all the other girls to the woods where they danced and was making a love charm for whoever they loved. After that they did not want to get caught so they lied to the people in…