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Arthur Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was also married to the well-known woman, Marilyn Monroe. "The Crucible" was written by him, to make the connection between the McCarthy interrogations in the 1930's and the Salem witch trials. He had been interrogated and was asked to name every communist he knew. Yet he refused to give evidence. He wrote "The Crucible" to alert Americans against the government misinformation.

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When the witch trials started occurring neighbors started going against one another. During this time many were becoming greedy trying to invest in more land for themself. This led to cases of people accusing one another of performing witchcraft. Simply being accused of witchcraft can get you put in jail. At he trials, victims would be unclothed and tortured. Teenage girls would be used and controlled for proof.

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More than 200 people were put in jail from accusations of witchcraft by 1692. To avoid being killed they had to confess. If people confessed, then the Puritans believed that God would punish them accordingly. Nineteen men and women were hung since they did not confess. The reason behind them not confessing is because they didn't want to sin before God.

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They believed that Satan was active and recruiting people. Every bad thought or event was immediately pinned on the devil. A slave named Tituba gathered bored teenage girls and spoke about stories relating to black magic and witchcraft. The girls started showing unexplainable witchlike symptoms after spending more and more time with her. She was later put on trial because she was accused of being a witch.

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A group of people who wanted to stray away from Catholicism to create a new religion based off of John Calvin's ideas. They left England and entered the new world to start fresh a new life. The believed in the ideas of total depravity, predestination, limited atonement, theocracy, and education. The Puritans believed in these things in order to have a simpler life yet conservative one as well to please God. Education became a larger factor especially on men, so they would have the ability to teach others about God.