The Puritans were religious groups, advocating for more purity of worship and doctrine.
in the family life, the parents choose who you would marry. Also your family would come first, and then god, and last common wealth. The husband in the family was always in control. The woman were supposed to encourage their husbands to worship and be a good follower of god.
Back then the children had to have schooling, but the girls did not get more. The boys and girls would take reading classes with their mothers usually and then after they achieved that the girls would be done with school and then the boys could go on and learn Latin, Hebrew, and also Greek.


Accused witches were drowned, burnt at the stake, hung, or crushed with boulders. To proves that they were witches, they would through them into the water. And if they floated they were proven to be witches, but if they drowned they were innocent.

Elizabeth Parris, in 1692, started displaying strange symptoms including speech and body problems. So they took her to the local doctor and he said the worst. He thought she was a witch. She was only 9 years old. Her friends later on started showing the same symptoms. They also were accused of witchcraft.