Decisions are something made every single day. At every single moment, human beings make decisions based on what they think is the best choice. This applies to early Americans as well. Many early Americans made choices based on the events occurring around them. There were different motivators for their decision. Today, there exists a famous quote. That is: “There is no greater motivator than fear.” At some point or another, most have heard it. It is also logically correct. Fear motivates us to make actions even if we don’t want to because they want to prevent the reality they fear from occurring. This applies even to early Americans. However, there are other motivators to them too. Early Americans made decisions based on fear, religion, and benefits. FDR once said, “There is nothing we have to fear but fear itself.” Yet even so, this monster named Fear is too ferocious not to fear. It makes humans fear poverty, "evil spirits", etc. It is also because of these factors that human beings are afraid and not tolerent towards many types of behaviors. In The Crucible, the protagonist (in a negative way), Abigail, inflicts fear to the people by saying she has the ability to sense the devil, Satan. Afraid that the people invovlve with the devil are evil and will cause harm to the people around them, the people in the village's ultimate choice was to execute those suspected people even though there was no definite proof. To begin with, the charade started when Abigail decided to lie to save herself from the punishment of witchcraft. "I want to open myself! . . . I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" she desperatly states after seeing that the confession saved Tituba, a slave girl that was also involved in the previous nig