Samuel Loomis

The Salem Witch Trials, in 1692, was a phase in American history when the Puritans settled in Massachusetts and extraordinary events began. The events that occurred stirred up hysteria within the people. The hysteria was also induced by propaganda of the North Church and the fear of the unfamiliar land and people, accusations, and God. The idea of witches existing and infesting themselves in Puritan daily life caught and spread through the Puritan communities quickly. As a popular influence, the…

On May 10th, 1773, Great Britain's parliament passed the Tea Act. The main objective of the Tea Act was to save the East India Company from bankruptcy, by lowering the tax on their tea. Also to give a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. Since all legal tea entered the colonies through England, it allowed the East India Company to pay lower taxes in Britain. The East India Company was doing well and the British wanted to give it more business, but the tea act lowered the price way…

It was June 10th of 1692 when Martha Cory stood in front of a crowd of people waiting to be hanged. Martha was not the first to be hanged though. After two little girls accused Bridget Bishop of being a witch. Paranoia swept throughout the small village, Salem. There had already been a trial the month before. Why were groups of people hanged for witchcraft in Salem in 1962. There were some poor teenage girls drunk with power and they started the Salem witch trials. The teenage girls…

that might be interpreted as non-Puritan, pronounced by Mather allowed the villagers of Salem to elucidate any kind of behavior that potentially resemble that of a witch or any forms of witchery. In the Middle of the summer in 1688, one of the oldest children, saw cause to examine the laundry lady, because she felt that there was linen missing in the household. “Of what use this linnen might bee to serve the Witchcraft intended, the Theef's Tempter knows! The lady in her opinion was the daughter…

Raul silverio Mrs. Rahn English 11 November 28 The crucible During the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts, several of the population in the village were executed and sentenced to death, claiming they did witchcraft. After strange events that occurred in Salem raised concerns. In the book the crucible by Arthur Miller, he had wrote a book about the tragic that happened Salem, with some main characters that had made a major impact in the history of this tragedy that happened in Salem. The…

Also comedy have a several types Farce, Romantic Comedy, Satirical Comedy, Sentimental comedy, Black comedy, Comedy of humours and Comedy of manners. The Farce is a form of low comedy, whose intention is to provoke simple mirth in the form of roars of laughter (and not smiles); it uses exaggerated physical action, character and absurd situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of…

The American Revolution was a combination of wanting new ideas and creating a new society and in the process escape from Britain. The Revolution couldn’t have taken place without religious background. In A History of the American People by Paul Johnson, he states that “ the American Revolution, in its origins, was a religious event” “That the fact was to shape the American Revolution from start to finish and determine he nature of the independent state it brought into being” One of few reasons…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words were the start of the Declaration of Independence written in 1776. The document was created as a final attempt to get freedom from England. Colonists had left England in search of freedom in America but instead found they were still controlled by the King. In hope of gaining…

By most historians the Salem Witch Trails were a product of mass hysteria; it all fueled by hearsay and distorted stories – even out of mere dislike of a neighbor. The Puritans, who had left England for religious freedom, noticed more and more individualism of the people of Salem and felt a loss of control of them. They used this hysteria, to try and bring them back to the church, but people even became weary of church members and suspected them of witchcraft. The extremely religious community,…

The ways of immigration in the 1600’s and 1700’s were extremely different than the way that immigrants come to America now. This week these three readings had a few similarities for example all of them came to America but, more difference between them. Within these three readings about the immigrants there was two immigrants that had it harder than the other one. The main similarity between these three articles is that all the immigrants came to America. Also, they all came from somewhere…