Reconstruction

CH 4

RELIGIOUS STRIFE & UPHEAVAL

Salem Witch Trials, circa

th 17

cen.

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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

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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 . . . 

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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.)