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Puritans come to America
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Puritans largely dominate Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Roger Williams shunned from Salem
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Anne Huchinson banished from colony
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Salem Witch Trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions that sentenced twenty people to death on the charge of practicing witchcraft. -
Death of John Hathorne
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Romantic Era of Literature
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Birth of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Publication of "Young Goodman Brown"
