Question

Select two details from the text that best support the inference that Boston's Puritan society was harsh and unforgiving.

Answer 1

Two details that support the inference that Boston's Puritan society was harsh and unforgiving are the Salem witch trials where nineteen people were executed for witchcraft, and the fact that hundreds of people were accused of witchcraft in Puritan New England.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. The Massachusetts Bay Colony's darkest moment came during the 1692 Salem witch trials when Puritan leaders executed nineteen people for witchcraft.
2. Like many other Europeans, the Puritans believed in the supernatural and accused hundreds of people of witchcraft in Puritan New England.

Answer 2

1)The persons with differing faith used to hanged in Boston Common. 2)They forced the humiliated guilty person to sit in the public square while others spat or laughed at them.