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    starting over in life isn’t always easy. When New Netherlands was first discovered the people living there experienced this. They had to think of ways to bring people into their new colony and ways to make their colony strive. Through sponsors giving out land and hard work‚ the people were able to make a go of New Netherlands. Eventually‚ King Charles II granted all of the land that included New Netherlands to his brother‚ the Duke of York. Duke of York eventually renamed New Netherlands‚ New York. If I

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    Coers English 1302.040 Research Paper: Hysteria and Fear during the Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials was a mass hysteria of executions and accusations. The fear was caused by the hysteria of women being bewitched and bewitching others. This is such a controversial event‚ and it’s hardly applicable to prove if the events leading to the Witch Trials were accurate. So I ask‚ “What were the causes of the Salem Witch Trials‚ and the events leading up to the causes?” Although the question

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    Patrick​ ‚ ​ Tamerick​ ‚ ​ Coulter​ ‚ ​ Lily‚ ​ Madison​ ) 2.  What is McCarthyism? Discuss the factors which‚  contributed   McCarthysism is based on a Republican senator John Mcarthy‚ who tried to uncover government  actions. The Senate Subcomitee did not like these actions against them and started to hold the  McCarthy hearings.   McCarthyism is the act of exposing actions within the government without proper evidence. It is  considered a form of treason. It is based on the actions of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy

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    The Mystery of the Salem Witchcraft Trials In a plain meeting house in 1692 a woman stands before her judges. She is accused of tormenting innocent girls with an unseen evil. Standing there‚ the poor woman is ridiculed in front of her whole town. She is surrounded by people accusing her of witchcraft based only on the hallucinations of attention-hungry schoolgirls. It makes us wonder was there no justice? It did not matter; superstition got the best of them. Eventually these superstitions claimed

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    What caused the Salem witch hunts? | Michael Kimbrough October 3‚ 2012 | The Salem witch trials happen in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. Some of the colony eventually admitted that the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then‚ the story of the trials has become famous with paranoia and injustice‚ and it continues to be in peoples imagination more than 300 years later. | |

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    The Salem Witch Trials Many people have innocently went to prison or payed for crimes they have never committed over the course of history. The Salem Witch trials is the most known tragedy in which many lost their lives due to false accusations of participating in witchcraft in a puritan community. These trials would forever put in shame the name of Salem due to the injustice done to the innocent by people who wanted to take the guilt and shame off themselves First and fore more the

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    Lifestyle In 15th Century New England The Puritans began as a religious group in England‚ after King Henry VIII was denied a divorce from Catherine of Aragorn. Henry was outraged by this denial and broke away from the Church‚ creating the Church of England. The Church of England became prominent in of forceful reprimanding of sinners‚ mainly through the use of whipping‚ public humiliation‚ and occasionally execution. Eventually‚ the Puritans became unsatisfied with the Church of England‚ due to their

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    European Exploration     From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century‚ there were many signs of movement and conquering new land. Just before this era we saw the renewal of European power. Justinian was able to establish his own code of law which helped rule over Europe. He made his best efforts to get Europe back to where it was previously but shortly after‚ the continent split due to religious beliefs. The western part of Europe believed in Catholicism‚ while the east believed in the traditional

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    Informative Essay The Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 forever changed our judicial system. Twenty innocent citizens from Salem all the way to Boston‚ Massachusetts were killed because they were falsely accused of Witchcraft. Nineteen men and women were hung and one man was pressed to death because he would not “admit” to practicing witchcraft. A lot of these deaths were the cause of ten “afflicted girls” who accused innocent men and women‚ in one case even a child‚ of practicing

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    In The Specter of Salem‚ Gretchen A. Adams studies the ways nineteenth-century Americans deployed the history of the Salem witchcraft trials to influence debates over national identity‚ the sectional crisis‚ and new religious movements. Adams situates her work within a wide range of historical and sociological literature‚ including studies of collective memory‚ nationalism‚ and language. Her research is based on the legal records and histories written immediately after the trials‚ as well as nineteenth-century

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