The Salem witches started between 1692-1693 in Colonial Massachusetts , they were accusing women for doing witchcraft. According to the colonies they thought women were weak, that lead them to believe they were easily tempted by the devil. One hundred people were accused of being witches, twenty people where executed. They didn't get NO lawyer of defense, if you were convicted of being a witch you would loose all your land. Eventually, the colony confessed that they made a mistake. As years passed, apologies where offered , and restitution was made for the victims families.
Jamestown The Great Awakening
The journey of Jamestown from England was the first ever lasting settlement in the Americans. They took 600 people on the journey, but only 60 made it. The journey took 2 months to finally reach land. The reason they went there was, because they heard rumors of gold, they wanted to get rich quickly without doing work. Sadly for them they couldn’t find any, also they had no food with them. They hit the starving time 80% of the colonists died, they tried grow plants, but the soil was very poor. Then came a another problem on the land there was people know as the Native Americans attacking them. The leader of the journey to Jamestown John Rolf came up with an idea, that he will marry the chief's daughter of the Native Americans Phochantas, so there will be peace between them.
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The Great Awakening was first started when Jonathan Edwards a Yale minister noticed people found getting rich quickly was more important than their own religion. He felt worried that emphasis of the Enlightenment on reason and science was making people less religions. That impacted him he gave a sermon called , "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." He preached that in order to not go to hell and burn for eternity, you must live a good life and be reborn. He said that anyone has the choice to be moral or immoral, and the fate of their soul is up to them. The Great Awakening impacted good things on them one bringing equality for all. People began helping and were given the right to question authority.
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