Crucible, House of the Seven Gables, Puritans, and Salem

Im going to start out with the history of Salem.  It was founded in 1626, and Puritans started coming in the Great Puritan Migration of 1629/30.  Puritans were very religious people who thought that all people were to an extant evil and sinners, and the only way to go to heaven was to repent and be very strict, religious people who used the bible as law.  In 1692 the Salem witch trials were started when many people thought that other were witches and many innocent people were killed because of these hangings.  During this time period is when Matthew Maule is executed for witchcraft, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's descendants are influential, his great-great-great- grandfather was a Puritan Judge who was known to give harsh sentences. Nathaniel Hawthorne's cousin owned the actual house for a period of time, as it was real but not built by the Pyncheons (who themselves were a real family and have a living descendant to this day) but built in 1668 by a Captain John Turner.  Hawthorne played in the house as a child, which inspired him to write the book, but he said it was complete fiction and based on no real facts.  This Puritan extremism which caused many people to die, can still be around today.  People that have extreme religious views, such as women having abortions should be unlawful (which is unconstitutional and crazy), or people who think that this country shouldn't have a separation of church and state.  These are very extreme views just like the Puritans, and I think that some of these views are not necessarily good and might not be good for the people of America