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Puritan Life in Salem Village:
1. Why did the Puritan's leave England and venture to a new land?
The Puritan’s leave England and venture to a new isalnd because they want to practice more freely their religion, also they made a social order around there church, and thet were not interested in freedom of all the religion
2. Explain how the Puritan's felt about freedom of religion.
The Puritan’s believe that if they have freedom of every religion people would get under Satan’s influence.
3. How important is the church in Puritan society? Explain.
The church for the Puritans was like there whole life because the church was all for them, the religion could be considered a culture for the Puritan society because they were raised with these thoughts and think is really a culture
4. What is excommunication?
Excommunication means that people were kicked out of their religion and if this happen they could never commune again.
5. Why were church leaders so influential/powerful in Puritan communities?
The church leaders where very powerful and influential this was because they though that the only ones that could communicate with god were them, also they say to the people what god told them to say and give his ideas and with this they could follow the path of god.
6. How does religion today compare to the Puritan's idea of religion?
The religion compared in this days people don’t take seriously the religion and they don’t need to have a special decide they could choose what ever they want, they can choose the religion they could be in; also people think that religion is not as important, and in those times it was very important for them was everything.
7. Why was witchcraft often the explanation for illness?
Because they didn’t know much about medicine, there knowledge was very poor, this means that where unknown for them where blamed to witchcraft.
8. What scientific explanation did Caporeal give as to the cause of the mysterious behaviour in Salem?
Caporeal give the explanation that the whole town was divides into two, the ones that opposed the appointment and the others that were in favor of Rey Parris; the ones that were in control of the trails and in the other side the ones that didn’t spoke against he’s trails.
Salem Witch Trials - 1692 Salem:
Read the short article, 'Life in Salem 1692.' Once you've reached the bottom of the page, click on Religion and Witchcraft, Economic and Social Divisions, and Puritan Children.
Puritan Children
1. Describe the life of a Puritan Child
The life of a Puritan Child was expected to behave as if they were adults, mostly in church, and in their chores. The children couldn’t express their emotions because that was a discourage in their family, they didn’t play with toys or play fun games because in this society this was a distraction for the kid. Also boys were expected to know how to fish, hunt work, and make carpenter and crafts, while the girls should know how to cook, wash, clean, and sue; this kids learned to read because they need to read the bible many times in there life.
Religion and Witchcraft
2. Describe a Puritan church service.
The Puritan church services were that people need to go to church or they will be punished, men had to sit in the end of the church and the woman on the other side.
3. What did the Puritan's believe about God and their church?
The Puritan’s believed that all the sins like stealing food and sleeping in church should be punished; and God will punish them if people don’t do want they are supposed to do in the signals he send, and saw God as a punisher and not a helper anymore
4. What do you think was the main message the Puritan's tried to convey to its parishioners?
I think the main message the Puritan’s tried to convey to its parishioners was to show them that they should faith to God, and that if they don’t follow the rules they will be punish.
5. Why was everyone so fearful? What were they afraid of?
Everyone was so fearful to the Devil and that the Satan would select the weakest individuals and they will kill them.
6. How did the Puritans feel about individuality?
The Puritans feel that they believed in God will so they just goanna care about themselves by their own, and they should not help others because god will be in charge of that.
Economic and Social Divisions
7. Differentiate between Salem Town and Salem Village
The Salem Village was part of the Salem Town, the Salem Village was a big part were farmers had their cultivation and crops, in stead the Town was trades with London happened, where wealthy merchants lived in there.
8. Explain the reason for the friction between Salem Town and Salem Village.
The reason was that there was one town that was more successful that the other and this was why the other had envy to everyone.
9. What role did the new minister, Reverend Parris, play in the Salem witch trials?
The role they plat was a man who envious said that how successful was Salem Village was the Devil’ s most influences.
Joseph McCarthy:
1. Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S senator who said that more than 200 communists had infiltrate to 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?
In the historical context was the World War II that was just ended and this threatened with the U.S.
3. What effect did McCarthyism have on artists and entertainers?
The effect that McCarthyism was a bad effect of the artists because he made their careers go down and also ended, some of the great filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin were banned form the U.S the reasons they gave were not true speculated by the communism.
Puritan Life in Salem Village:
1. Why did the Puritan's leave England and venture to a new land?
The Puritan’s leave England and venture to a new isalnd because they want to practice more freely their religion, also they made a social order around there church, and thet were not interested in freedom of all the religion
2. Explain how the Puritan's felt about freedom of religion.
The Puritan’s believe that if they have freedom of every religion people would get under Satan’s influence.
3. How important is the church in Puritan society? Explain.
The church for the Puritans was like there whole life because the church was all for them, the religion could be considered a culture for the Puritan society because they were raised with these thoughts and think is really a culture
4. What is excommunication?
Excommunication means that people were kicked out of their religion and if this happen they could never commune again.
5. Why were church leaders so influential/powerful in Puritan communities?
The church leaders where very powerful and influential this was because they though that the only ones that could communicate with god were them, also they say to the people what god told them to say and give his ideas and with this they could follow the path of god.
6. How does religion today compare to the Puritan's idea of religion?
The religion compared in this days people don’t take seriously the religion and they don’t need to have a special decide they could choose what ever they want, they can choose the religion they could be in; also people think that religion is not as important, and in those times it was very important for them was everything.
7. Why was witchcraft often the explanation for illness?
Because they didn’t know much about medicine, there knowledge was very poor, this means that where unknown for them where blamed to witchcraft.
8. What scientific explanation did Caporeal give as to the cause of the mysterious behaviour in Salem?
Caporeal give the explanation that the whole town was divides into two, the ones that opposed the appointment and the others that were in favor of Rey Parris; the ones that were in control of the trails and in the other side the ones that didn’t spoke against he’s trails.
Salem Witch Trials - 1692 Salem:
Read the short article, 'Life in Salem 1692.' Once you've reached the bottom of the page, click on Religion and Witchcraft, Economic and Social Divisions, and Puritan Children.
Puritan Children
1. Describe the life of a Puritan Child
The life of a Puritan Child was expected to behave as if they were adults, mostly in church, and in their chores. The children couldn’t express their emotions because that was a discourage in their family, they didn’t play with toys or play fun games because in this society this was a distraction for the kid. Also boys were expected to know how to fish, hunt work, and make carpenter and crafts, while the girls should know how to cook, wash, clean, and sue; this kids learned to read because they need to read the bible many times in there life.
Religion and Witchcraft
2. Describe a Puritan church service.
The Puritan church services were that people need to go to church or they will be punished, men had to sit in the end of the church and the woman on the other side.
3. What did the Puritan's believe about God and their church?
The Puritan’s believed that all the sins like stealing food and sleeping in church should be punished; and God will punish them if people don’t do want they are supposed to do in the signals he send, and saw God as a punisher and not a helper anymore
4. What do you think was the main message the Puritan's tried to convey to its parishioners?
I think the main message the Puritan’s tried to convey to its parishioners was to show them that they should faith to God, and that if they don’t follow the rules they will be punish.
5. Why was everyone so fearful? What were they afraid of?
Everyone was so fearful to the Devil and that the Satan would select the weakest individuals and they will kill them.
6. How did the Puritans feel about individuality?
The Puritans feel that they believed in God will so they just goanna care about themselves by their own, and they should not help others because god will be in charge of that.
Economic and Social Divisions
7. Differentiate between Salem Town and Salem Village
The Salem Village was part of the Salem Town, the Salem Village was a big part were farmers had their cultivation and crops, in stead the Town was trades with London happened, where wealthy merchants lived in there.
8. Explain the reason for the friction between Salem Town and Salem Village.
The reason was that there was one town that was more successful that the other and this was why the other had envy to everyone.
9. What role did the new minister, Reverend Parris, play in the Salem witch trials?
The role they plat was a man who envious said that how successful was Salem Village was the Devil’ s most influences.
Joseph McCarthy:
1. Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S senator who said that more than 200 communists had infiltrate to 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?
In the historical context was the World War II that was just ended and this threatened with the U.S.
3. What effect did McCarthyism have on artists and entertainers?
The effect that McCarthyism was a bad effect of the artists because he made their careers go down and also ended, some of the great filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin were banned form the U.S the reasons they gave were not true speculated by the communism.