How history Influence Today Firstly, your food. Corn. Corn was the staple food product of the Native Americans, it was their wheat. Now days you find it in just about everything you eat (High Fructose Corn Syrup). But fried fish in cornmeal, cornbread, and crawfish boils, tortillas, nachos, popcorn, grits (hominy), on and on. Does the potato even need mentioning? Then you have Bourbon Whiskey. Well with that you get Jack Daniels and Jim Beam as well as white lightning or moonshine. Well, lots of prohibition liquors were moonshine, as well as moonshiners who used to modify their cars to evade their police began to race them on dirt tracks, and then later paved ovals. Today, we call it NASCAR. Then of course we also have peanuts they grew, that means no Peanut Butter and Jelly, made famous in WWI as a quick sandwich meal handed off to troops as they boarded transportation. History affects the way we think, speak, and interact with each other. If we look at the history of …show more content…
Other historians classify her as someone who was an easy target because her behavior was often disagreeable in a community that valued harmony and obedience to authority, or because she violated community norms by having associated with the wrong people, keeping "unseasonable" hours, hosting drinking and gambling parties, and behaving immorally. She was known for publicly fighting with her husbands (she was in her third marriage when accused in 1692). She was known for wearing a scarlet bodice, considered a bit less "Puritan" than was acceptable to some in the community. On April 18, Bridget Bishop was arrested with others and taken to Ingersoll's Tavern. The following day, magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examined Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and Mary
Throughout the trials ,Elizabeth would testify and accuse many of witchcraft. After the trials many people believed that Elizabeth had faked all of the strange behaviors in court, but it was too late for after the trials were over she had accused and killed many. “Elizabeth Hubbard maintained a spiteful and malicious role throughout the witchcraft scare…” (Hill, sec. 20). Elizabeth had been seen as the girl who threw violent fits. People thought that she was faking the violent fits for attention. She was thought to want this attention due to her unusual upbringing of being an orphan, and being “more of a servant than an adopted daughter” to her great aunt and uncle (Nichols par. 2). “James Kettle was also willing to stand and testify against Elizabeth and stated, ‘the last of May, having some discourse with Elizabeth Hubbard, I found her to speak several untruths” (Hill, sec. 20). Elizabeth was also bad for when she would accuse someone she would accuse them in the same way saying “I saw the apprehension of… who did most grievously afflict me by pinching and pricking me” (Nichols par. 4). Through the trials, Elizabeth and the other girls had accused many of witchcraft, and by June 16, 1692 nineteen more people had been hung (Mills). “By the end of the trial Elizabeth Hubbard had testified against twenty-nine people, seventeen of whom were arrested, thirteen of those were hanged, and two died in jail” (Nichols par 4). While Elizabeth Hubbard would stand and testify in court, she would show her odd behaviors and by this she caused many people to have a life of hurt, or a life ending in
The first major event in the foundation and evolution of the United States is of course the discovery of the America continents and the European contact that followed. Without this discovery, the seeds for American expansion as a country and a power on the world stage never would have happened. Another positive of European contact include the introduction of corn, pumpkins, potatoes, papayas, pineapples, tomatoes, avocados, guavas, peanuts, chili peppers, many different types of squashed and beans, and cacao to the world diet. European contact with the New World and the Native Americans also resulted in the discovery, and addition to the world markets, of cotton, rubber trees, and tobacco; all of which would go on to play hugely important roles in American history. European contact has also had a negative impact. Immediately following contact with the Europeans, the population numbers of the Native Americans declined roughly by half. This population drop was caused mostly by deadly epidemics because the Native American lacked natural immunities to diseases carried by the Europeans such as cholera, typhus, measles, diphtheria, and smallpox. While European contact with the New World had a disastrous effect on the indigenous Native Americans, the contact had m...
“Bridget Bishop, please step forward.” "No, I am innocent to a witch.” Though everyone thought she was a witch, Bridget Bishop was not. Lots of other people went through this same persecution. Tons of innocent women and men were accused of practicing witchcraft. The cause of hysteria and witch trials in Salem 1692 was what? I am certain that it is a group of young girls. Based on the documents given in my class, it is because the girls were jealous, power seeking, and craving attention.
During the time of 1636 a women that goes by the name Anne Hutchinson, took control of Winthrop's Boston church on an attempt to convert the whole colony to a religious view that Winthrop thought of as blasphemy.( Anne Hutchinson had weekly meetings with women of Boston and discussed recent sermons, while speaking her own theological views.) Later Winthrop led a counterattack against her after he became re-elected as governor. In his attempt to demolish her influences, he succeeded. Hutchinson was put on trial, for the charge of “traducing the ministers” and was sentenced to banishment.
Although she was a smart girl, Abigail was only out for herself and her own reputation. Abigail Williams didn't only lie about witchcraft, but she forced others to join in. She was Reverend Parris's niece and believed she could get away with whatever she wanted. Abigail did not want to have to damage her reputation by having a different testimony as all the other girls, so she forced them to lie as well. While alone with the girls she said, "let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it..." (Miller 1044). Abigail also stuck a needle in herself because she knew Goody Proctor had a poppet at her home with a needle in it. While talking to John Proctor about Abigail, Cheever remarked, "...and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, she draw a needle out. And demandin' of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in," (Miller 1077). Abigail may have been the most prominent person to lay the blame on, but other people were guilty as well.
In Puritan led Massachusetts Bay Colony during the days of Anne Hutchinson was an intriguing place to have lived. It was designed ideally as a holy mission in the New World called the “city upon a hill,” a mission to provide a prime example of how protestant lives should have subsisted of. A key ingredient to the success of the Puritan community was the cohesion of the community as a whole, which was created by a high level of conformity in the colony. Puritan leaders provided leadership for all facets of life; socially, economically, religiously, and even politically. A certain hierarchy was very apparent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in which ministers always seemed to have gotten their way. Governor Winthrop got his way in 1637 by banishing a woman, Anne Hutchinson, whom he thought posed a threat to the structure of the colony. I believe that there is a legit rationale for her banishment, this being her religious ideas that were very close to that of the Antinomians who Governor Winthrop was not too fond of. I also think that this was not the primal reason. In my mind, Anne’s gender played a large role in determining whether or not she actually posed a serious threat to the solidarity of Massachusetts.
I came across the idea for this paper while researching History Day topics. I noticed some of my classmates were thinking about doing Martin Luther King Jr. for their topic. I asked myself: ‘Well, what about Mrs. King? Wasn’t she an activist for civil rights as well?’ And that’s how the idea was born.
Why History is Important The study of history is important because we learn from our mistakes, we share a common experience with people that binds us together, our minds store our experiences, and society can build upon past accomplishments. The first, and most significant, reason history is important is because we learn from our mistakes. If there were no history, then everyone would make the same mistakes over and over. In any job, if you can avoid mistakes you or someone else made in the past, then you would run a more efficient workplace. An intelligent person would not make the mistakes themselves, but learn from other people’s mistakes.
First, in her attempt to save herself from embarrassment, Abigail starts the awful witch-hunt by lying about what she was doing in the forest around evening time with other girls. In conversation Mary Warren pleads with Abigail to “tell the truth…you will only get whipped for dancin”(Miller 39). Abigail will stop at nothing to keep her reputation and she even threatened the girls to keep their mouths shut .Later, Abigail continuously demonstrates that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants and one of her real desire is John Proctor. With her newfound power, Abigail takes the chance and names Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor, as a witch. Elizabeth is stunned upon discovering she was named in the court. She knew that Abigail would “Dare not call out such a farmer’s wife but there be monstrous profit in it.”(Miller 104). Finally, Abigail demonstrates her selfishness by exploiting the power the community has given to her. She names a few individuals just in light of the fact that she disdains them or on the grounds that they are a risk to her. Abigail emphatically shows her quality of self-centeredness all through the story and uncovers that she will do anything as long as it is in her best
1. Why is History ever changing and multi-sided even though the event occurred in the past? Select a specific example from history to support your thesis.
Before the mass hysteria of witches haunting Salem, Bishop had already been accused of being a witch and been in trouble with the law several times before. she was the first person tried because it was believed the case against her would be easy to win. Her first husband died and she married Thomas Oliver, that she often got in legal trouble with. However, when Oliver died he left his property and home to Bishop. Which led Bridget’s stepchildren to claim she bewitched Oliver to death but the lack of evidence prevented the case from going to trial. Afterwards, she married Edward Bishop and owned an apple orchard. However, on April 18, 1692, Bridget Bishop was arrested for being a witch and her accusers were, Mercy Lewis, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Ann Putnam, Jr. Also there were other people from the town that trialed against her. With each person claiming, she had haunted them in their sleep, they saw her practicing or speaking to devil, and that she would physically harm them. Consequently, the overwhelming evidence that was presented against Bishop led to her being hanged on June 10,
One night the girls were caught dancing in the woods naked by Reverend Parris. Abigail threatened the other girls she would kill them if they ever said what they were actually doing, which was conjuring spirits. Abigail was the one who had done most of the wrong dong including drinking blood. Because of this event the start of the whole witch hunt and hysteria can be accredited to Abigail. Whenever she would be accused she would make up a lie, and threaten the other girls to say it was the truth.
There are times when I remember my GOOD OLD DAYS at Vine Hill Elementary School.
Gratefulness is a virtue that is established through showing appreciation for what you have. I am not a materialistic person so the main three things that I am grateful is life, religion, and structure. I know one day I may not have specific material things and I may lose valuable family and friends. These three things can continue for my whole life and it gives me joy, hope, and peace.
Have you ever wondered why schools teach history? History is a subject that educates students about past events. Usually, history is a mandatory subject you take in elementary school, middle school, and optional during high school. Many students usually ponder to themselves, why do I have to learn history? The main reasons history is essential, because it helps us develop judgment in global issues by understanding past behavior of people and societies, it assists us in making appropriate decisions, it helps us form vital skills necessary for good citizenship, and it inspires us.