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Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
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end. 184. Superstition. — Throughout all ages and in all countriesbelief in some form of evil spirits has accompanied belief in God.An almost universal fear of witches and witchcraft was associatedeven with the Christian faith. Throughout all European nations,so-called witches were executed; and in England in one year onehundred and twenty were put to death on charges of witchcraft.Among the colonies, here and there, persons were accused of beingin league with the Devil, and punishment was inflicted upon a few.In 1692 an epidemic of superstitious fear occurred in Massachu-setts, beginning in Salem Village, or what is now called Danvers.Children witnessed against many persons throughout the county,and before the craze was over twenty persons unjustly lost theirlives. The next year, the people began to recover their senses,and in May, 1693, the jail doors were opened and all the prisonersaccused of witchcraft were set free. This jail delivery marked thebeginning of a better day. 1763.
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Copyright, 1892, in MacCouns Historical Geography of the United States. GOVERNMENT. IO7 CHAPTER XXVII. GOVERNMENT. 185. Charter Colonies. — There were three forms of governmentamong the colonies, — charter, proprietary, and royal. The threecharter colonies were Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.Charles I. in 1629 granted a charter to the Massachusetts BayCompany which they brought over with them the next year. In1644 the same king gave a charter to the colony of Rhode Islandand Providence Plantations, and in 1665 New Haven and Connecti-cut were united by a charter granted to the colony of Connecticut.In these three colonies the people were allowed to govern them-selves, provided merely that they made no laws contrary to thoseof England. They chose the members of both branches of thelegislature and the governor as well. Massachusetts lost its firstcharter in 1684, and the second, granted in 1691, directed that thegovernor should be appointed by the king. Rhode Island and

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