Witchcraft Final

a.) who was crushed

b.) according to the Crucible, what were his last words

a.) Giles Corey

b.) “More weight”

Why was Anne Hutchinson exiled?

She spoke out against church authority

She was having private meetings in her home that she led

True or False: Puritans believe that only the clergy should learn how to read and write

False

True or False: When Deliverance Hobbs accused Bridget Bishop of witchcraft, Hobbs was already imprisoned herself for the same crime.

True

True or False: in her accusations against John Proctor, Marry Warren suggested that he choked and bit her

True

True or False: King William’s War and Queen Anne’s War, both of these wars are examples of a struggle for power between England and Spain

False

Why did the Salem trials eventually stop?

The new governor came in and he banned spectral evidence

People grew weary of the prosecution at the executions

What did Roger Williams advocate

Separation between church and state

Women who agreed to work for passage money

Indentured servants

Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible during what event

Red Scare, McCarthyism, House Unamerican Activities Committee

Where did the English colonies money come from

Joint stock

Three problems the Jamestown colonies faced

Very poor drainage, frequent outbreaks of disease, contaminated drinking water…

First governor of Massachusetts

John Winthrop

Settlers in Jamestown were poorly prepared for frontier life, why?

Unexperienced workers, stupid rich white men

True or False: following the Glorious Revolution, a new governor was immediately appointed in Massachusetts

False

Define spectral evidence

a spirit came out to do harm

Define overture

when a woman gets married, any property she may have owned becomes her husband’s

What was the main goal of Puritanism

Purify the Anglican Church from any remaining Catholic influences

Who was the first person to confess to witchcraft

Tituba

The pilgrams were destined fro which region but landed off cape cod

Virginia

What conflict did Samuel Paris have with the community

Paris wasn’t getting his firewood wages

Where did ergot poisoning come from

Rye fungus

True or False: Because Protestants believed that women were weak, they believed that they were less likely to confess to witchcraft

False (women bad)

True or False: women in the household economy experienced the most rigid separation of jobs along gender lines

False

Why weren’t there any witch trials anywhere but New England

There weren’t any women

From one of the documents - in the testimony against Bridget Bishop, Christan Trask claimed to see Bridget Bishop doing what

She was playing shuffleboard and having parties all night long (not cruise shuffleboard)

In his petition for lenience, John Proctor said the trials were unfair, why

the trials were for revenge (“whore’s revenge” according to the movie)

The English were less motivated to explore, why

Internal conflict, experienced resistance with the Irish, they already had a valuable export

According to the Crucible, why did Thomas Putnam accuse his neighbors

Land disputes

When did the legislators of MA finally clear the names of the accused

It wasn’t immediate, the last name cleared wasn’t until the early 2000s

True or False: Puritalns valued diversity more than harmony and order in the home

False

John Demos suggested the girls were in the psychological phase of development

The oral phase

Charles Upham blamed Paris for the witch trials, why

Paris fanned the flames of the accusations

According to Wiseman, accusations just stopped, why

The judges were skeptical and the accusers’ credibility was in question

Name the founding document to govern Plymouth colony

Mayflower Compact

In his testimony against John Proctor, Samuel Sibley said what

Called her a jade, testified against his threats

Who baked the witch cake and what was it for

Tituba to rid the girls of the evil spirts (and then fed it to Pooty)

Wy was the region sparsely populated when pilgrims arrived, what just happened

Smallpox

Why did Proctor choose to die

Death was preferred to eternal damnation because he lied

The Puritans made their homes and their settlements in a different pattern than the people in the Chesapeake, how were they different

More village centered, Chesapeake was more spread out along the waterways

Why wasn’t Elizabeth Proctor executed

She was pregnant

What did Boyer and Nissen say about the 1734 incident in Northampton

There was a revivalist movement in Northampton, the experiences the children were having were from the Holy Spirit and not the Devil

Who was the first person executed

Bridget Bishop

What was the Great Migration

Puritans from England to New England following the preachers

Why was there resentment between Salem town and Salem villiage

Salem town was more focused on trade, the village was rural

Two human emotions central to The Crucible

Shame, fear, jealousy…

What is Carol Carlson’s argument about Salem

She believed the accusations were tied to economies especially inheritance and poverty

Who did Tituba name as fellow witches

Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good

Define pre-destination

God already knows who’s going where

Primary industries of New England society

Shipbuilding and fishing

Factors that lead to Salem

Political, economic, legal, social, Paris as a whole, land disputes and scarcity…