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Puritanism was a religious group that played a huge part involving the Crucible. Puritanism was a religious movement that left Britain to come to the Americas. Puritans were seeking purity and were committed to their strong religious beliefs such as limited atonement which was the belief that God would only be able to save a few people or the belief their beliefs on salvation in which the puritans would have a personal experience with Christ. Puritans started their own society after fleeing from Britain and considered themselves the perfect society and called it "a city on a hill" which would hold onto and spread their strong beliefs. Thanks to their beliefs the Puritan society was manipulated by a witch hysteria that lead to the death of many and torment of their group. 

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Witch trials were the sequence of prosecutions against Puritan society in the late 1600s. Witch trials began due to the influx of accusations against "witches" among Puritans which lead to the trials of more than 200 people. These court cases were an event of mass hysteria in which the victims of the supposed witch's would practically decide the trials and pretend to be controlled by the accused witches. The trials started due to a group of young girls who said they were being acted upon by unseen forces because of witches. After the first accusation people started accusing their own neighbors for a variety of reasons and the court trials also went on for so long due to the heavy religious beliefs of the Puritans. The witch trials of Salem left at least 25 people dead after executing 19 people and even crushing a person to try to and get a confession out of him. 

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Arthur Miller was a famous 1950s playwright known for his work, "Death of a Salesman" and, "The Crucible". Arthur Miller was born in 1915 and was known for combining his social awareness with his work. Arthur based "The Crucible" on the Salem witch hunt to bring awareness of the situation in the 1950s in which the government developed a branch to look for alleged Russians hidden among them. Arthur Miller was a fantastic writer and wanted to bring awareness to McCarthynism which was a man hunt to try and find hidden Russians spy. The trials that started to accuse many people, especially people in Hollywood were crazy and Arthur felt the need to fight it, he would do so by fighting it in court and refusing to give up others he knew and also releasing "The Crucible".

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Joseph McCarthy was a US senator that started a series of investigations to try and seek hidden communists among us. McCarthyism was named after the time that Joseph spent investigating people in search of communists. The search for communists started once Joseph was elected and gained control of the Committee on Government Operations of the Senate and of its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. With his new found power, McCarthy used his new position to take people to court and accuse them of being or knowing communists. While McCarthyism didn't really make any real cases against any accused communists it made him famous while ruining the lives of the people accused. McCarthyism was compared to the Salem witch trials and after a playwright, Arthur Miller was questioned he wrote, "The Crucible" to bring awareness to McCarthyism and the power it held to ruin peoples lives.

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Tituba was an enslaved native American women in Salem. Tituba was enslaved by the minister of Salem and was one of the first accused witch's, and her actions may have lead to the Witch Hunt of Salem. Tituba would be accused after the ministers daughter became sick, and it was believed that a witch was behind it. Tituba would later be taken to court and made a "witch cake" that made the accusers believe that Tituba was a witch. At first even after Tituba was accused, she denied that she was involved with witchcraft, but after being beaten by her owner she would confess which may have been one of the reasons that snowballed into the witch Hunt in Salem. Tituba was later accused again of using magic to harm them along with the help of two other women who would also be accused and lead to the witch trials.