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Between February 1692 and May 1693, a series of hearings and trials for those accused of witchcraft took place in colonial Massachusetts. There were more than 200 accusations. Thirty individuals were found guilty, and 19 of them were hanged. Giles Corey, another guy, was executed by hanging after refusing to make a plea, and at least five inmates passed away in custody. The incident is one of the most infamous examples of public panic in Colonial America. As a vivid cautionary story about the risks of isolation, religious extremism, false allegations, and violations of due process, it has been exploited in political rhetoric and popular fiction. It wasn't unique, but rather a Colonial American illustration of the much more widespread early modern occurrence of witch trials, which also occurred in Europe.

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The northernmost of numerous colonies that were eventually organised as the Province of Massachusetts Bay was the Massachusetts Bay Colony, more formally known as the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, which was an English settlement on the east coast of North America near the Massachusetts Bay. The Massachusetts Bay Colony made history by being the first colony with an English charter whose board of governors didn't dwell in the country. With no influence from the king, Archbishop Laud, or the Anglican Church, the immigrants were able to uphold their Puritan religious beliefs thanks to their independence. The Puritans, a sect in England, established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In addition to hoping to create an example religious community in the Americas, they established their colony in order to flee religious persecution.

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Making erroneous or unsubstantiated charges of treason and subversion, particularly in relation to anarchist, communism, and socialism, and especially when done in a visible and attention-grabbing way, is known as McCarthyism.Originating in the United States during the Second Red Scare, which spanned from the late 1940s through the 1950s, the phrase originally related to the contentious actions and policies of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Increased political repression, persecution of left-leaning people, a campaign to foster distrust of claimed communist and socialist influence on American institutions, and Soviet spying were its defining characteristics. McCarthyism started to wane from the mid-1950s, largely as a result of Joseph McCarthy gradually losing public favor and credibility when some of his claims were proven to be untrue.

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A witch-hunt, sometimes known as a witch purging, is a search for those who have been accused of being witches or seeking proof of witchcraft. The classical period of witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America occurred between 1450 and 1750, spanning the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, and is thought to have resulted in 35,000 to 50,000 executions. A number of changes in Christian doctrine, such as the identification of witchcraft as a form of Satanic influence and its designation as a heresy, accompanied the resurgence of witch-hunts at the end of the medieval period, which occurred with at least partial support or at least tolerance on the part of the Church. The belief in witchcraft, which in the medieval era had been at best a component of the folk religion of the ignorant rural population, was absorbed into an expanding theology of Satan as Renaissance occultism gained popularity among the educated classes.

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The Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the Church of England needed to undergo further reform and move further toward Protestantism in the 16th and 17th century. They intended to rid the Church of England of Roman Catholic customs. Puritans held that in order to be delivered from one's sinful state, one must be in a covenant relationship with God, that God chose to reveal redemption through preaching, and that the Holy Spirit was the energizing agent of salvation. The major threats that the Puritans worried about were Indian invasions, fatal diseases, and failure. Also, they lived very plain and simple lives.