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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:george-h-boughton-pilgrims-going-to-church.jpg\|frame\|"...most dismal wretches, who said their prayers before daylight, and then wrought in the forest or the cornfield till evening made it prayer time again."]] The period in America from around 1607-1763 where just about [[Blatant Lies\|everyone was a Puritan Pilgrim]] and had to attend church services that were approximately 11 days long. [[Deliberately Monochrome\|Everyone wore black all the time]]; the men all carried [[BFG\|blunderbusses]] and wore [[Nice Hat\|tall hats with big buckles around them]],<ref>[[Hat Shop\|capotains]]</ref>, while the women all wore bonnets and square linen collars with optional [[The Scarlet Letter\|large red A's]] .<ref> This option was generally discouraged -- but then, everything, and everyone, was generally discouraged</ref>. The women were all called "[[Insistent Terminology\|Goody]] Somethingorother" and were frequently [[Burn the Witch\|burned at the stake as witches]]. Occupations among the men, besides the aforementioned prayer and witch-burning, included [[Moral Guardians\|persecuting]] [[The Heretic\|Quakers]], [[Politically -Incorrect Villain\|oppressing]] [[Noble Savage\|Native Americans]], [[Injun Country\|being scalped]], and hunting turkeys for the first [[~~Useful Notes/Thanksgiving Day\|~~Thanksgiving Day]] dinner. {{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == Line 11: == [[Literature]] == * ''[[~~The Leatherstocking Tales (Literature)\|~~The Leatherstocking Tales]]'', including ''[[~~The Last of the Mohicans (Literature)\|~~The Last of the Mohicans]]'' * Many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, including ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' and "Young Goodman Brown." * ''Mason & Dixon'' * The [[Backstory\|backstories]] of many of [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]'s works. * The short story "Ezekiel" by Desmond Warzel takes place in Roanoke in 1587 (the first English settlement in North America, and thus the very earliest part of this period). * The [[Dear America]] series has ''A Journey to the New World'' (1607), ''Standing in the Light'' (1763), and ''Look to the Hills'' (1763). Line 25: Which was historically accurate enough to know that witches were ''hanged'' not burned in this period. * Almost everything else was wrong, though; the people who wrote [[Burn the Witch]] got it right. *** As this troper recalls, it wasn't meant as an accurate portrayal of the Salem Witch Trials and instead used the witch trials as a metaphor for the hysteria surrounding the ~~[[Mc Carthy]]~~McCarthy hearings == [[Video Games]] == Line 33: * ''[[Disney Animated Canon\|Pocahontas]]'' * One episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', involving time travel, takes them to Salem. Naturally a [[Burn the Witch]] attempt ensues. ** ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~OddParents]]'' had one as well. {{reflist}} [[Category:Useful Notes/The United States]] [[Category:Hollywood History]] ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:~~The~~ Colonial Period]], The}} [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]