Thoughts about Salem Residents

Negative Qualities  <------------------------------Both-------------------------------> Positive Qualities

1. believed others corrupt                      1. forefathers were Puritans               1. hard working

                                                               persecuted in England                    2. strict morals

2. no holidays - only occasional              2. close to wilderness                         3. disciplined

    celebrations                                                                                             4. dedicated

3. plenty who did not conform                                                                        5. communal                             

4. difficult conditions: hard                                                                              

    winters, unfertile soil

5. minded each other's business

6. suspicious

7. told on each other to

    magistrates

8. dangers of starting again in the new 

    world were fading and frustrations 

    and envy emerging

9. close to wilderness

10. afraid of heathens who they thought

     were devilish

11. parochial

12. missionaries who failed to convert 

      native Americans

13. resistant

14. long suffering

15. theocratic - combined state and

      religion

16. repressed

17. long held hatreds of neighbours

18. jealousy

19. Europeans considered US 
     missionaries a barbaric frontierand a 
     sect of fanatics