Galileo was<span> ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed </span>heretical<span>by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the </span>accused<span> be imprisoned and secluded during the trial. hope this helps</span>
Answer:
If I am not mistaken it would be Shirley Anita Chisholm
Explanation:
She was the first African-American women to be in congress during the year 1968, she then went onto look for nomination for president of the United States from one of the major parties in 1972.
The <em>Salem witch trials</em> were a series of prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. The episode is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. The exact cause of this <em>hysteria</em> is unknown but there were probably a number of causes such as: conversion disorder, epilepsy, ergot poisining, encephalitis, Lyme disease, unusually cold weather, factionalism, socio-economic hardships, family rivalries and fraud. Also, in seventeenth century Massachusetts, people often feared that the Devil was constantly trying to find ways to infiltrate and destroy Christians and their communities.
New England had been settled by religious refugees seeking to build a pure, Bible-based society, They lived closely with the sense of the supernatural. This society was Puritan, God fearing, theocratic which means that rulers act in the name of God, in other words, this society was religious extremist.