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The Puritans were a minimalist group of people who believed in John Calvin ideas and wanted to rid of Catholicism. At the time, the Puritans had a strong belief that Satan was real as well as witchcraft. The Puritans then accused citizens of being witches and by 1692 had jailed over 200 people. They hanged 19 men and women all accused of witchcraft. In the 1950's Arthur Miller was accused of being a communist so he wrote "The Crucible" to show that the same thing happened with the Puritans in the 1600's