Scavenger Hunt Answers

1. First reaction: what's going on? When accused as a witch, I was confused as to what was happening. I then realize, by the hint thrown not to deny accusation, that I had to accuse someone else to save myself. Had it been real, I'd have been scared and when accused and accusing someone else would have been heavy on my conscience, had I chosen to do so.
2. The main difference that I see between the witch trials and The Crucible is what happens to the Mr. Proctor and Mrs. Proctor as a result of the first trial. Since it is interactive, the National Geographic version of the Salem Witchcraft trials doesn't even mention the Proctors; whereas, in The Crucible, they are the main focus because Mr. Proctor was said to have an affair with one of the first accused witches. Eventually his connection with the "witch" got him sent to the gallows (for hanging), as was a common punishment for "witches". This is the major difference. The minor difference I read was that Tituba wasn't whipped to force an answer, and told freely of her deal with the devil.
3. Linnda Caporael's  theory as to why the Salem Witchcraft Trials took place, makes a viable argument and  could be true. There is a good point made by Caporael that could have some truth to it and the her evidence lines up correctly; however, there are many points in history prior to the Salem Witchcraft Trials where ergot poisoning was going on. Most of the time, when people got ergot poisoning, it did not result in an entire village of people going insane and hanging each other. Usually, some people would get sick and that would be the end of it.
4. The similarities in Miller's Description of McCarthyism and the Salem Witchcraft Trials are 'peer pressure' by the public and unjust accusation of others. In both Miller's Description and the Trials, those in the 'spotlight' are pressed hard by the public, whether it be village people or the media, to tell them what they (the public) want to hear. During the Trials, fellow villagers accuse one another to take the pressure off of themselves, and during the Red Scare (McCarthyism), people tried their hardest to ensure that they had no connection with communism and threw others "under the bus" for showing any sign (some had nothing to do with communism) of being a communist.    
5. The very same hysteria was created in the Salem Witchcraft Trials as during the Red Scare, in the sense that many people were afraid of something that they had no real idea of what it was, but accused people of it to assure themselves it was real. For the village in Salem, the 'something' that they were afraid of was witchcraft; nobody had any real evidence that it existed, but accused others for being a part of it anyway. For the Americans during the McCarthyism era, it was the fear of communism coming to America; at the time communism was a new concept to most Americans and represent Russia (USSR) to them, and they didn't want it.
6. During each event, there was a mass hysteria that had arisen from an issue in society. In the "Human Rights Watch" article, during the Salem Witchcraft Trials, and the Holocaust many people died as a result of many people being scared by something; but during the Red Scare and in Japanese internment camps (in America), many citizens of America were not killed, but deprived of their rights in an effort to protect all American citizens.
7. George Santayana's quote means that if we cannot learn from mistakes made during the Salem Witchcraft Trials, eventually we will have more Salem Witchcraft Trials, but maybe in a different form. Learning from history is knowing what happened, why it did, and how to prevent it from happening again. The Crucible is somewhat successful at educating its readers about history, in the fact that the main point, or main event, is portrayed accurately enough to give a good idea of the late 1600s chaos, known as the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
8. A well-known example of another "witch hunt" was the Holocaust. The Holocaust can be compared to a witch hunt because Germany, and Hitler (village girls), needed someone to blame and "point the finger" at for their financial crisis and depression: the Jews (accused witches).
9. There's not much that I learned from this activity that I did not in other classes.