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Salem (1692)
•Salem was divided into two parts:
Salem Town and Salem Village
•Salem Village is part of Salem Town
but set apart because of class/social
status
•Salem Village = mostly poor
farmers
•Salem Town = many wealthy
merchants because it is a port town
trading with London
Salem
• Salem Village wanted to be separate
from Salem Town because Salem Town
determined prices for their crops,
collected taxes from the Village
• There were certain people in Salem
Village who lived closer to Salem Town
and were able to rise in their wealth
Salem
• Salem Village felt Salem Town threatened
their puritan beliefs
• Most people in Massachusetts were
Puritans—colonists who had left England
seeking religious tolerance.
• Problems arose and the Witch Trials took
place in 1692
Puritans
• Puritans were not happy with Church of
England's tolerance of practices which they
associated with the Catholic Church.
– Puritans influenced by Catholic beliefs
• Modern times Puritan = “against pleasure”
• Very strict beliefs. Wanted to live simply
and believed everything they do must be
to honor god and not upset the devil.
Salem
• Some of the first women to be accused as
witches were those who strayed from the
Puritan lifestyle
– Example: Those in Salem Village who
lived closer to Salem Town and were able
to rise in wealth/power
• Witches deemed punishable under Puritan
Law
She’s a Witch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z
rzMhU_4m-g
McCarthyism
• The practice of making accusations without
proper regard for evidence. Making unfair
allegations or using unfair investigative
techniques
• During the McCarthy era, thousands of
Americans were accused of being communists or
communist sympathizers and were aggressively
investigated and questioned before government
or private-industry panels, committees and
agencies.
McCarthyism
• Red Scare: the promotion of fear of
a potential rise of communism
• Communism: characterized by the
absence of social classes, money,
etc.
–Simple lifestyle, like the Puritans
believed in
Due Process of Law
• The principle that an individual cannot be
deprived of life, liberty, or property without
appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
• Legal requirement that the state must respect
all legal rights that are owed to a person
• When a government harms a person without
following the exact course of the law, this
constitutes a due process violation
Arthur Miller
• Born in Harlem, New York in 1915
• Married to Marilyn Monroe
• Attended the University of Michigan
before moving back east to produce plays
for the stage
• Death of a Salesman opened on
Broadway in 1949
• Often wrote about societal and personal
matters
• Died February 10, 2005 of heart failure at
age 89
Arthur Miller
• House of Un-American Activities Committee called
him in—his play, The Crucible, a dramatization of
the Salem witch trials of 1692 and an allegory of
McCarthyism, was the reason
• HUAC created in 1938 to investigate alleged
disloyalty on the part of private citizens, public
employees, and those organizations suspected of
having Communist ties.
• Miller refused to comply with the committee's
demands to "out" people who had been active in
certain political activities