LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Harvard college
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Columbus
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Great Awakening
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In June of 1692, the special Court of Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to decide) sat in Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. Presided over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the court was made up of magistrates and jurors.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 12-year-old daughter of Thomas Putnam and his wife, Ann Carr Putnam, became one of the most prolific accusers of the trials, naming and/or testifying against more than 60 people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Salem witch trials, (June 1692–May 1693), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts).
Detailed explanation-4: -Elizabeth Booth. Elizabeth Hubbard – niece of Dr William Griggs, local physician. Mercy Lewis – servant of Thomas Putnam; a former servant of George Burroughs. Elizabeth “Betty” Parris – daughter of the Rev. Samuel Parris. Ann Putnam Jr. Mary Warren. Abigail Williams – cousin of Betty Parris.