The Crucible Background by Michelle Vondran https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5 What do you already know about the background? en-us 2022-04-21 13:50:05 UTC 2022-12-02 19:16:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220088 The beliefs or principles of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.]]> 2022-04-21 15:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220088 Mostly took Place in Salem https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220246 2022-04-21 15:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220246 The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220432 2022-04-21 15:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220432 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220503  a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts

]]> 2022-04-21 15:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220503 burned people https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220916 2022-04-21 15:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152220916 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221246 They came as the result of a combination of church politics, family feuds, and hysterical children]]> 2022-04-21 15:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221246 people thought that if women were good at something they were witches. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221399 2022-04-21 15:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221399 Puritanism is behavior or beliefs that are based on strict moral or religious principles, especially the principle that people should avoid physical pleasures. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221441 2022-04-21 15:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221441 Most Accusers Were Girls Under Age 20 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221467 2022-04-21 15:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221467 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221934 Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits.]]> 2022-04-21 15:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152221934 The threat of a French invasion of England is diminished by victory at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222235 2022-04-21 15:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222235 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222327 English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.]]> 2022-04-21 15:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222327 Some were drowned https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222370 2022-04-21 15:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222370 screenwriter in the 20th century https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222507 2022-04-21 15:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222507 25tstevens https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222528 People who were accused of being witches and were killed in the colony of Massachusetts]]> 2022-04-21 15:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222528 Colonial time period https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222633 2022-04-21 15:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222633 Some were beaten https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222658 2022-04-21 15:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222658 an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222706 2022-04-21 15:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222706 Trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts where somebody was crushed to death by rocks. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222937 2022-04-21 15:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222937 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222962 Puritanism, as a religious movement, believed in cleansing the church of all of its remaining Roman Catholic ties. Its followers, dubbed Puritans, lived by a moral and religious code that not only influenced their own lives, but sought to impact the lives of everyone around them.]]> 2022-04-21 15:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222962 Most were killed https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222970 2022-04-21 15:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152222970 They believed in cleansing the church of all of its remaining Roman Catholic ties. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223044 2022-04-21 15:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223044 The youngest accused witch was 4 years old https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223070 2022-04-21 15:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223070 The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil's magic—and 20 were executed. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223212 2022-04-21 15:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223212 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223335 Hearings where women were accused of witchcraft and typically put through trials that ended in death either way.]]> 2022-04-21 15:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223335 a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223427 2022-04-21 15:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223427 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223574 Accused witches were bound at the wrists and ankles and dropped into a body of water. If they floated, they were guilty of witchcraft. If they sank, they were innocent (but often drowned anyway).


]]> 2022-04-21 15:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223574 a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223819 2022-04-21 15:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223819 married Marilyn Monroe https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223829 2022-04-21 15:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152223829 McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to communism and socialism. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224137 2022-04-21 15:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224137 You could be accused of being a witch and killed by anyone at anytime for any reason. if you didn't attend church or gossip you were accused and killed in various different torturous ways https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224268 2022-04-21 15:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224268 America still under English control https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224297 2022-04-21 15:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224297 Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224382 2022-04-21 15:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224382 More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224522 2022-04-21 15:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224522 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152224809 a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54.

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In 1692, mass hysteria and rampant paranoia swept the New England country side. Citizens in the small village of Salem were being accused of casting spells of consorting with the devil of being witches.]]> 2022-04-21 15:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152225216 Part of the Christian religion. They believed in separating completely from the Catholic Church to practice Christianity in their own way. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152225749 2022-04-21 15:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152225749 25tstevens https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152225923 A period of time where New England was still under British control and the Salem Witch Trials took place]]> 2022-04-21 15:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152225923 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226019 Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

]]> 2022-04-21 15:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226019 Died of Heart Failure https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226200 2022-04-21 15:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226200 Very strict religious belief followed by settlers who moved to New England which allowed few freedoms and they disliked people who followed different religions. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226316 2022-04-21 15:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226316 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226511 McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government. ]]> 2022-04-21 15:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152226511 catholic extremists that lived by moral and religious code every day. they believed in separating their religion from everything else and 'cleansing the church' https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152227645 2022-04-21 15:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152227645 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152227713 Miller was shaped by the Great Depression, which brought financial ruin onto his father, a small manufacturer, and demonstrated to the young Miller the insecurity of modern existence. ]]> 2022-04-21 15:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152227713 Shortly after America's colonization started, start of the Salem Witch trials https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152227731 2022-04-21 15:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152227731 Practice that encourages creating fake allegations https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152228746 2022-04-21 15:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152228746 25tstevens https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229097 A group of people known as the Puritans who were very religious and were against all other religions]]> 2022-04-21 15:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229097 https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229107 2022-04-21 15:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229107 Accusing possible communists of treason. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229258 2022-04-21 15:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229258 He is best known for Death of a Salesman. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229683 2022-04-21 15:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229683 New England was incredibly disrupted by the idea of witches who worshiped the devil. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229950 2022-04-21 15:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152229950 a time period of hysteria where people where being accused of witchcraft by puritanism https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152230100 2022-04-21 15:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152230100 25tstevens https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152232115 The practice of making accusations of treason against communists and socialists]]> 2022-04-21 15:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152232115 McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to communism and socialism. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152232581 2022-04-21 15:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152232581 He was convicted of contempt of Congress https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152233624 2022-04-21 15:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152233624 25tstevens https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152233626 An American playwright during the 20th century who made the Crucible]]> 2022-04-21 15:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152233626 McCarthyism is an idea that people will join your side if you hot-wire fear and confusion into the minds of the people to move against your opposition. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152233755 2022-04-21 15:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152233755 accused some guy of supporting communism https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152237709 2022-04-21 15:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152237709 Wrote "The Crucible", he married Marilyn Monroe, and he was falsely accused of being a communist sympathizer. https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152238200 2022-04-21 15:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mvondran/uqd29xng4hrehmn5/wish/2152238200