The Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials were events that took place in the Salem Village between June and September of 1692. Hundreds of people were being accused of practicing Witchcraft and were put on trial. At least 20 people were executed. Victims of witchcraft were said to have Fitts‚ the act of screaming‚ throwing things‚ and outburst of gibberish. It was a strong belief that the devil could give certain people or “Witches” the power to harm others in return for their
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How can two events that happened hundreds of years apart be strikingly similar? The themes and events of the Salem witch trails and McCarthyism era are very similar but still very different. The two events happened in the US history. The Salem witch trails happened in the year 1692 ‚ while the McCarthyism era was going on in the 1950-60 . The events happened 258 years apart. In both the witch trails and McCarthyism the accusations where based on pointless facts. “They be telling lies about my
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In the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the summer months of 1692‚ over 200 people were accused of being bewitched and associating with the Devil. Within the matter of months‚ 20 people were put to death and seven died in jail. The event‚ which has come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials‚ stopped after September 22‚ when eight people were hanged‚ on what was named Gallows Hill‚ an event that marked the decline of the Salem Witch paranoia. Although the paranoia was such a drastically important
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June 10‚ 1692 Bridget Bishop ‚ a young women from Salem‚ was hanged to death. Bridget Bishop what hanged for witchcraft. Two little girls from the town accused Bridget Bishop of making them act weird . At the trial when she was shaking her head to answer the question the girls started to shake and fall onto the ground. They later accused her that her body movement influenced them to shake so she was hung to death. What caused the mysterious superstition of people being witches? one possibility is
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The noose swung back and forth. Another execution had taken place in Salem in 1692‚ the victim falsely accused of witchcraft. Why were citizens fearful enough the killed others? The Salem witch trials were caused by poor‚ young girls who acted possessed because they were jealous of the rich. These girls hated being bossed around‚ so they pretended to be controlled by witches‚ who were the rich people they were jealous of. According to document B‚ the young girls didn’t want to be told what to
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Many assumptions have been made by historians to explain the occurrence of the Salem witchcraft trials‚ and on why the afflicted girls behaved the way they did‚ but yet there still seems to remain a sense of doubt on this issue. It seems that this case is not just because of one factor such as Ergotism‚ but several more. The affliction started by mind suggestion. The early beliefs and superstitions in Puritanical society that were practiced on an everyday basis supported the idea that the behaviors
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The Massachusetts Bay School Law Upon arriving in America‚ the Puritans have a charter granted by the king which gives them some measure of self-government. The "Massachusetts Bay School Law" established in 1642 expressed the Puritans ideas on education‚ religion‚ and the study of a "particular" calling. Every Puritan was expected to abide by the law and to report offenders‚ who were consequently reprimanded or punished accordingly. The master of the family was obliged‚ according to the "Massachusetts
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Even though the Virginia and Massachusetts Bay colonies were the some of the oldest and most heavily populated of the English colonies‚ their differences in their economies‚ politics‚ religions and society set them apart. Some of the differences include the southern Virginia colony having a representative assembly‚ while Massachusetts Bay colony had a democratic assembly‚ and the main crop of Virginia being tobacco‚ while the Massachusetts economy revolved around lumbar‚ fishing and trade. Virginia
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Salem Possessed redefined the standard for the possibilities social history offers to understand the events and people of early America. Through a painstaking look at local records such as legal records‚ the Salem Village record book‚ the minister’s book‚ and tax records Boyer and Nissenbaum discovered a long-standing pattern of contentious behavior of which the witchcraft accusations in 1692 was just one episode. Their analysis provides an invaluable insight into the social history of New England
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witch-hunt is not limited to one particular event in history. Many key events throughout time relate very closely to these acts of misunderstanding and unjustified killings. For instance‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller was written to portray the Salem Witch Trials in a fictional view although based on true events. Miller in fact based this play after Joseph McCarthy’s Red scare as a fictional foreshadow to more modern times. Another thing closely tied to the witch-hunts is the treatment of Japanese
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