THE CRUCIBLE

SALEM WITCH TRIALS

• Began in the spring of 1692
• Young girls thought they were possessed
• Started when a doctor diagnosed a sick girl with witchcraft
• Many women were falsely accused as being witches

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• 25 killed
• 19 hung
• 6 drowned
• When women were put on trial, their lives were spared if the gave up other witches
• Started March 1 1692 and ended September 22 1692

ARTHUR MILLER

• Born in New York in 1915
• Attended the University of Michigan
• First broadway play was "The Man Without Any Luck"
• Most successful play was "Death to a Salesman"

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• Had 4 wives throughout his life
• One was Marilyn Monroe
• Embarrassed of his Down syndrome son
• Died in 2005 at the age of 89

MCCARTHYISM

• The practice of making accusations of disloyalty
• Mostly in the pro- communist realm
• Accusations were false in most cases
• The accusers had little to no evidence

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• Joseph McCarthy was the spark of this movement
• The people being accused weren't really communist
• This was more of a political attack on these people
• After having no proof for his accusations he was censured by the senate