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McCarthyism was a relentless movement to filter out Communists from the general American population. Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator who became the head of the movment to rid the U.S. government of Communists. These accusations were almost identical in reason to the Salem Witch Trials. The accused would have their lives ruined, family and friends would sever ties and you would get rejected or fired from jobs for decades to come. These accusations went on for four years from 1950-1954.

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The Massachussets Bay colony was considered a "City upon a hill" because it was viewed as the model society or a utopia of God's diciples. The idea was invented by John Winthrop, a devout Puritan who believed that the world needed an example of a pure civilization. A pure civilization is one that is governed under god in a theocracy. In these towns, Puritans ended up establishing colleges such as Harvard and Yale to teach the word of God. These cities no longer exist and the colleges they have built focus less on religious teachings.

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Also known as the "Reformed tradition" or "Reformed protestantism" was a branch of protestantism that followed the theological tradition and some Christian practices made by John Calvin.

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The Salem witch trials were a series of wild accusations thrown by neighbors accusing women of all ages of practicing witchcraft. These accusations started with a group of young girls who accused a slave named Titiba of practicing witchcraft on them and causing the Devil to tempt them into eternal damnation and servitute. They went around many towns claiming to be able to see the work of the Devil and accusing many people for what is believed to have been for attention or a thrill. Ironically, during these trials one of the ways to get out of being executed was to admit to being a witch, then your punishment was being judged by God. These accusations extended to the eldery and even a four year old girl.

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Puritans were people who were a part of a religious movement that originally took place in England. They protested the Catholic church for not following the word of God and believed that Catholics were impure. Puritans ended up leaving and sailing to America to escape persecution from the Church. They established the Massachussets colony to build a religious utopia governed by a theocracy. Puritans believed in the idea of grace, limited atonement, selective salvation, and that everyone is born a sinner at birth.