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Pilgims and Puritans
Pilgrims and Puritans landed in Plymouth to avoid religous persecution they were recieving back in Europe. -
Salem Witch Trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts in 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of 20 people, most of them women. -
In God We Trust
Act of May 18, 1908, made it mandatory on all coins upon which it had previously appeared. IN GOD WE TRUST was not mandatory on the one-cent coin and five-cent coin. It could be placed on them by the Secretary or the Mint Director with the Secretary's approval. -
Roy Torcaso
FIlled out paper work to become a notary public in Maryland, however he was required to say he believed in God. As Torcaso was an athiest, he refused and filed a lawsuit. -
Puritans and Sex-ed
Puritans took the court that we should not teach sex-ed because they believed in teaching abstinence.
