RELIGIOUS STRIFE & UPHEAVAL CH 4

Salem Witch Trials, circa 17 th cen.

Key Terms  Glorious Revolution *  Great Awakening  Cotton Mather  Spanish Inquisition *  Witchcraft mania *  Tituba  Salem, Massachusetts  Malleus Maleficarum / Hammer of Witches) *  Spectral evidence  Patriarchal family  Feme covert  Surplus crops  Enlightenment  New Light / Old Light  Pietists  Harvard College  College of William and Mary  John Wesley / Methodism  George Whitfield  impressment  Freemen  Methodists  Quakers  Baptists  Moravians

Questions to Consider  What factors led to a rise in tensions within colonial America in the early 1700s? How did the social, political, and economic instability lead to an increase in accusations of witchcraft? How did this “witchcraft mania” impact women and dissidents?

If You’re Curious...  Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich  Reimagining the Past: The Religious History of American Women ed. by Catherine Brekus (Several good articles on women and religious history.)