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The Crucible Web quest Background Research
Directions: You may work together in a group and work together to research background
information about The Crucible. Each group member is responsible for completing his or her
own question sheet but you may divide the research tasks between group members. Once your
group completes this process, you must make sure that each person has all the questions
answered.
Question Set 1
The Salem Witchcraft Trials Background
Research suggestion:
http://www.famous-trials.com/
1. When did the Salem witch trials take place?
2. How many people died?
3. Was this the first time people had been tried as witches? Explain a bit about the history.
4. Identify and describe their connection to the witch trials for the following people:
Sarah Goode:
Sarah Osborne:
Tibuta:
Samuel Parris:
5. How did people avoid execution?
6. Why did the land suffer along with the people?
7. When did the witch trials end?
8. Identify the following people and describe their connection to the witch trials:
Rebecca Nurse:
John Proctor:
Elizabeth Proctor:
Sir William Phips:
9. Summarize the procedures used in the Salem Trials.
10. Read and summarize “The Man of Iron”, a record of fate of Giles Corey.
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June to September 1692
claim pregnant(women), confess, flee, point your finger at someone else
People were scared of the accused land
1693
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The Crucible Web quest Background Research

Directions: You may work together in a group and work together to research background

information about The Crucible. Each group member is responsible for completing his or her

own question sheet but you may divide the research tasks between group members. Once your

group completes this process, you must make sure that each person has all the questions

answered.

Question Set 1

The Salem Witchcraft Trials Background Research suggestion: http://www.famous-trials.com/

  1. When did the Salem witch trials take place?
  2. How many people died?
  3. Was this the first time people had been tried as witches? Explain a bit about the history.
  4. Identify and describe their connection to the witch trials for the following people:
    • Sarah Goode:
    • Sarah Osborne:
    • Tibuta:
    • Samuel Parris:
  5. How did people avoid execution?
  6. Why did the land suffer along with the people?
  7. When did the witch trials end?
  8. Identify the following people and describe their connection to the witch trials:
    • Rebecca Nurse:
    • John Proctor:
    • Elizabeth Proctor:
    • Sir William Phips:
  9. Summarize the procedures used in the Salem Trials.
  10. Read and summarize “The Man of Iron”, a record of fate of Giles Corey.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/gilescoreypage.HTM

  1. Explain why the hysteria finally ended.
  2. The Cause of the Salem Witch Trials—identify at least three reasons for the outbreak in Salem. http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm

Question Set 2

Arthur Miller http://www.famous-trials.com/ https://www.britannica.com › Arthur-Miller-American-playwright

  1. Arthur Miller’s birth:
  2. Arthur Miller’s death:
  3. What other well-known play did he write?
  4. What famous person was he married to (for a while) and what did she have to do to marry him?
  5. What university did he attend? What degree did he receive there?
  6. Why did he not have to serve in World War II?
  7. When did The Crucible open on Broadway?
  8. Before what committee did he have to appear in 1956?
  9. In May 1957, of what was he found guilty?
  10. What happened in August 1958?
  11. What was the “Hollywood Ten”?

Question Set 3

www.ushistory.org

Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare of the 1950s

  1. Who was Joseph McCarthy and what was he looking for? Why?
  2. Why were Americans afraid of Communists?