The earliest person to confess to being a witch in the 1692 Essex County Witch Scare was the slave woman [BLANK-1]. She was the slave of the community’s minister, Samuel Parris, but had previously come from the West Indies (where folk magic and spell casting were commonly practiced). Her race is unknown, although she was likely at least partly Native American and was married to another Native American slave named John Indian. She had been heavily involved in the incidents that likely caused the symptoms in Abigail Williams and Betty Parris that were later attributed to witchcraft. Objectively, she did attempt some beneficium (good magic or harmless magic). She taught the girls magic divination (fortune telling) likely with a Venus Glass and had participated in the Witch Cake trial with the Parris’s neighbor, Mary Sibley. During the first witchcraft examinations, Abigail and Betty accused her and others of using invisible agents to pinch and bite them. This woman confessed and claimed that Satan had come to her and demanded that she hurt the girls; she also accused the two other women being examined at the time, Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne, of being worse witches that forced her into the harmful acts. Young Abigail and Betty, who had been quite agitated throughout the examination, immediately calmed down once she had confessed, leading credence to her confession. Unlike every other accused witch examined that day, this woman survived the scare and was never executed (despite her confession and being a slave woman of color).

Between 1800 and 1860, the percentage of Americans who were [BLANK-1] rose from 12 to 40%. Most were unskilled laborers, women, and children and they faced an increasingly demanding schedule. Unlike in the shop system where apprentices would live with their masters and long-term commitments were expected, these laborers did not live with their masters and the relationship between owner and laborer was more impersonal. Further, these laborers could be hired or fired as the market dictated.

At the turn of the nineteenth century there was a strong [BLANK-1] to the United States led by Tecumseh’s Confederation. Organized by Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, it encouraged Native Americans to set aside their individual squabbles to focus on fighting United States expansion and the revitalization of their own culture. In the early years of the nineteenth century, this was a serious challenge for the United States. Tecumseh and his allies won some significant victories before a major setback at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 diminished his confederacy and defeats at The Battle of Moraviantown in 1813 and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 crushed serious armed action against the USA.

One of the earliest and staunchest advocates of English colonization efforts in America was [BLANK-1]. This person wrote Discourse on Western Planting in 1584 where they amassed the supposed religious, moral, and exceptional economic benefits of colonization.

Women were also involved in the American Revolution, though they were not allowed to officially fight for the Continental Army of militias. One such case was [BLANK-1], the wife of a Connecticut militia leader. As her hometown was attacked, she calmly evacuated her household and when her husband was captured by loyalists, she wrote letters for his release. When those attempts failed, she spearheaded an effort to capture a prominent Tory leader to exchange for her husband’s freedom.

Comprised of Essex County’s business and political elites, [BLANK-1] were a close-knit group who were often related to each other by marriage or business partnerships. For this group, the witch scare of 1692 may have come as somewhat of a relief; these elites had been linked to a number of military failures during the Indian Wars and the presence of a large coven of witches in Essex County allowed this group to blame demonic influence for the fiascoes rather than their own failings or incompetence.

Which assignment is worth the most points in the class?

Civil forfeiture is a legal action in which _______ is/are confiscated.

Instructions: Combine one prefix, one root, and one suffix from the selection below to form a correct medical term. Then define it. Prefixes: brady-, inter-, hypo-, hyper-Roots: my/o, cardi/o, therm/o, neur/oSuffixes: -itis, -megaly, -algia, -ic Example: an-, ech/o, -ic = anechoic > produces no echoes and therefore appears black 

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