Tuesday September 22

Chapter 3, Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750

Classwork for Tuesday September 22

1-PPT Chapter 3, Creating-Anglo-America

2-Short History Channel documentary on the Salem Witch Trials (23m)

3-History beyond the textbook research assignment. The University of Virginia’s Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project.

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people?group.num=all&mbio.num=mb6

Chapter 3, Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750, Colonies in Crisis

Puritans in New England lived in a perpetual state of heightened anxiety at the end of the seventeenth century.

Nearly driven into the sea during King Philip’s War (1675-1676), and with over 1,000 colonists killed and twelve established towns completely razed to the ground, settlements in New England were still reeling from that collective trauma.

Chapter 3, Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750, Colonies in Crisis

The effects of the Glorious Revolution (1688) in England, which effectively dismantled the Puritan-established “Bible Commonwealth” in Massachusetts, and particularly the passage of the Toleration Act of 1690, giving freedom to Protestant dissenters, produced division, dismay, and anxiety throughout the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

To add fuel to the fire, the traditional English enemy, France and their Indian allies were making incursions (raids) into northern New England, wreaking havoc throughout settlements.

Chapter 3, Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750, Colonies in Crisis: The Prosecution of Witches

In this pre-scientific age, witchcraft was still widely believed in and punishable by execution.

In general, most accused of witchcraft were women, who were beyond childbearing age, outspoken (assertive), economically well off, or estranged from their husbands.

“Witches” were frequently seen as a challenge to the patriarchy.

Chapter 3, Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750, Colonies in Crisis: The Salem Witch Trials

In 1691 several girls in Salem suffered fits and nightmares, which were attributed to witchcraft.

Three women, including a Caribbean slave named Tituba, were named as witches.

Accusations snowballed; ultimately fourteen women and six men were executed before the governor halted all prosecutions.

All protested their innocence to the end. Giles Corey was even pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea.

Chapter 3, Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750, Colonies in Crisis: The Salem Witch Trials

http://documentaryheaven.com/salem-witch-trial/Salem Witch Trials/History Channel (23m)

Classwork for Tuesday September 22

• 1-History beyond the textbook research project. Follow the link to the University of Virginia’s Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project.

• http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people?group.num=all&mbio.num=mb6

• Choose a category/topic of interest to you and be prepared to make a mini presentation to the class on a subject of your choice.

Homework due Wednesday September 23

• No Homework tonight