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A puritan is a group that came to the New World from England. They hated the chruch of england and the roman catholic chruch. So the created a goverment that speratted chruch and state. They where hated in England for what they belived in they had differnt belifes then the other churchs. So they came to the New World to worship freely under there own ruling.

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The witch hunts started in the mid-14th in Europe. In the New World, it started with a girl getting tremors, and the girl and her friends started blaming people for being a witch. These people got put in jail and killed by being hanged. There were 14 women and 5 men killed by these trails in Salem, Massachusetts. These witch hunts are where the people believed to be from hell or the Devil.

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Arthur Miller is the writer of The Crucible a play about the Salem witch trial. This play was written in 1953 at first it was not famous. People would pay people to not go to this play. During this time he was accused of being a communist because he wrote this play. Now this play is a very popular play and many people enjoy it nowadays.

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McCarthyism is a trial similar to the Salem witch Trials. This trail is when someone like your neighbor could tell someone that you are a communist or a Soviet spy. If they say that they are they lose their reputation and their money. This event is very similar to the Salem trial in that someone is accused of being a witch or a communist. These trials were happening when Arthur was writing the Crucible.

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Salem Massachusetts is the town where the Salem witch trials. This trail has made this town a popular town for ghost and witch tours of the town at night. The town is by the ocean and has a port. The Procter family still lives in the town of Salem. This trial will forever have a impact on the town of Salem.