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The Crucible is set in the New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.
Map Ref. Map of Salem Village in 1692 by W.P. Upham, 1866, (Salem Witch Trails Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, 2023) https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/maps/index.html
A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Puritans became noted in the 17th century for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that informed their whole way of life, and they sought through church reform to make their lifestyle the pattern for the whole nation. Their efforts to transform the nation contributed both to civil war in England and to the founding of colonies in America as working models of the Puritan way of life.
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023, January 6). Puritanism. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism