Post on 04-Jan-2016
Key Terms
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
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?