1. Colonial Time Period (Puritanism)
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2. Colonial Time Period (Puritanism) 1620–1750
Writing styles
Writers wrote in Puritan Plain Style
using simple, direct language to discuss everyday objects and feelings
Writing that brought home a full awareness of the importance of worshipping God and of the spiritual dangers that the soul faced on Earth

3. Puritan Beliefs WORK AND PRAY!!!!
Believed in a Covenant with God and with each other to follow moral codes in pursuit of eternal life
Believed in Predestination (only the elect would be saved)
Believed God and Satan were active presences in the natural world

4. Believed Native Americans were heathens and the woods and forests full of demons
Believed in mandatory attendance at church
Believed that people were expected to work hard and repress emotions and opinions

5. Read natural signs to see God’s will or Satan’s tricks (when a neighbor’s crop failed or a child became sick, saw it as God’s will and did not help)
Believed Satan selected the “weakest”—women, children and the insane to carry out his work.
Believed those who followed Satan were considered witches
Punished witchcraft by death

6. Witch Trials in Europe
As early as 1450, there were witch hunts all over Europe
Many thousands were hanged, drowned or burned at the stake
Women were viewed as “imperfect” as they were formed from a man’s rib whereas men were the privileged sex (Christ--a male)
Popular view of women was source of witch hunt hysteria…seen as inherently evil and sexual—thus targets for the devil

7. Salem (Boston) Witch Trials
Possibly the single, most studied event in colonial American history
Fear of magic and witchcraft was common in New England, as it had been in Europe
Over 100 alleged witches had been tried and hanged in New England during the 1600s
In early 1692, the witch hunt hysteria began in Salem

8. From early spring to September 1692, over 150 “witches” were taken into custody
19 men and women refused to confess and were hanged on Gallows Hill
One man was pressed to death under stones
Four died in jail

9. Elements of the Puritans today
Societal Judgement
Sexuality and morals
Nude beaches
Laws based on morality
Abortion
Capital Punishment
Manifest Destiny
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