According to the Europeans‚ “a witch was a person who committed a crime using harmful magic.” The Salem Witch Trials occurred in Salem Massachusetts from February 1692 to May 1693. The Witch Trials did not happen due to what some originally might think. There were more reasons for the brutality and carelessness of the trials than just witchcraft. When the colonists came over to the New World‚ they were unfamiliar with the terrain‚ weather‚ and soil. These factors made it so colonists were unable
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Chapter 10 Launching the New Ship of State‚ 1789–1800 1. New Government Launched a. List two examples used by the authors to illustrate the precarious nature of the new country in 1789: (1) (2) b. Drafted by James __________‚ the first ten amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of __________) are designed to ____________ (enhance or restrict) federal power. Why was such an enumeration of rights one of the first orders of business when the first Congress met in 1789?
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Have you ever heard of the salem witch trials? The salem witch trial happened in 1692. It was the most terrible period of the colonial period. The salem witch trial happened when a couple of girls were dancing in the wood. The girls got caught by someone and they told on them. The girls went to court and started to blame other people and acting like something was happening to them. The main cause of the salem witch trial of 1692 were lying girls‚ jealousy‚ and the town splitting by wealth and power
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List of 5 Possible Causes of the Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials were a series of witchcraft trials that took place in 1692 in Massachusetts. Nearly 200 people were accused of witchcraft and by the end of the trials‚ 19 were sentenced to death by hanging and executed. The historians agree that the Witch Trials were a result of mass hysteria but there are several theories about its causes. Listed below are 5 possible reasons for one of the most tragic events in American history. Boredom
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Internet Craze His/145 7/12/11 The internet has the world under its hand and foot. There is not a day that goes by that a person is not on a computer for one thing or another. The World Wide Web was originally used by the military for military purposes. Then in the early 90s the web had gotten released to the public to use for finding limited information out. Now anyone can get on-line and surf the web. Internet access to the world has changed every culture traumatically. Instead of people
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was a time of panic and bedlam. Men and women of all ages were being “inhabited by the Devil” in turn making them witches. During the 1600s‚ English immigrants arrived in New England‚ a number of them being Puritans. The Puritans were Protestant Christians who were unhappy with the way England practiced Christianity so they moved to New England for a fresh start. However‚ once it was the 17th century‚ witchcraft became more well known and people became more worried
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England settlers. The causes of the famous outbreak of witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts are rooted in social‚ economic‚ and political aspects of the late 17th century Salem community. Early New Englanders were unable to accept the increase in diversity and the break in tradition that occurred between generations. This‚ in addition to various unappealing events which occurred throughout the late 1600s‚ created tensions within the New England community. Such tensions were the cause of the prevalent
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The Salem witch hunt was a wave of paranoia and ignorance and caused hundreds of innocent people to die. This started in in the spring of 1692 and did not end until September in 1962 because people really stared to doubt the truthfulness of the trials. The first convicted witch was a woman by the name of Bridget bishop. This was a large impact on history and even had many books such as the crucible and many others. The other main cause is that back in this time most people did not understand things
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Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch To Live In Salem Massachusetts twenty people were hanged because Puritans believed everything that the Bible said.One topic that the bible discussed was ¨The devil is real and he is clever¨‚ the bile discussed that whenever he sees a person weak he can control them. the Bible stated that when someone is weak they can’t keep there mind straight and see hallucinations and voices “the devil is the voice”‚ they hear and they listen and the devil makes them do witchcraft
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