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    Salem Witch Trials DBQ The Salem Witch Trials‚ of 1692‚ occurred in Salem Massachusetts. This is a case where people accused other people of witchcraft. Salem was a town governed by strict Puritan religion‚ and to have such a charge labeled against you could cost you your life. There were many worldly reasons for the events that happened so many years ago. In this essay‚ I will explain why I think this tragedy occurred. One of the reasons why I think this took place was because of social problems

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    I believe that the real cause of the Salem Witch Trials stemmed from sheer ignorance from the Puritan people. The first factor in the ignorance displayed by the people of Salem was a result of their religion. The Puritans held a firm belief in the Bible and had a strict interpretation of the meaning of what was in the Bible. So they took the Bible passage that reads‚ "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live‚" seriously. I think that this is the very root of the problem: ignorance as a result of religion

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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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    classic example of all such social tragedies based on fear and ignorance is that of the colonial era ’s Salem Witch Trials. While Mc Carthyism was illustrated as a widespread fear of communism that led the United States to pursue unnecessary investigations‚ imprisonments‚ and often unprovoked acts against those who were often only remotely accused of being a "dreaded communist"‚ the Salem witch trials led to well over a dozen executions of local women accused of practicing witchcraft and directly

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    the Salem Witch Trials were occurring‚ it was a time of despair‚ concern‚and many accusations. The events that took place in Salem in 1692 are a part of a greater pattern throughout our history to persecute innocent people‚ especially women‚ as witches. Salem was broken into two parts‚ Salem Town and Salem Village which set it aside by economy‚ class and character. Salem Village was known as the have nots‚ mostly consisting of poor farmers who made a living cultivating crops where as Salem Town

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    Holocaust really necessary? Was the Salem Witch Trials really necessary? Was there any reason for it at all? Just like the Salem Witch trials there was no real evidence‚ need‚ or reason for The holocaust. Because somebody said this‚ or somebody believed in this‚ many people lost their lives with no real‚ strong reason for it. Most of it were caused by mass hysteria‚ something that does not happen much today. The Holocaust was very much like the The Salem Witch Trials. A Lot of people died for no reason

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    in Salem Village‚ and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic‚ yet these trials and executions actually still took place‚ how can you explain why they occurred? <br> <br>The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover‚ as they did in The Crucible‚ but as series of seemingly unlinked‚ complex events‚ which a paranoid and scared group of people incorrectly linked. And while there were countless other witchcraft trialsSalem ’s trials

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    SALEM WITCH TRIALS! ♥ From June through September of 1692‚ nineteen people convicted of practicing witchcraft in Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials took place only in America‚ but the idea of witches has existed in many parts of the world. In Europe witches were believed to be anti-Christian‚ and to have sold his or her soul to the devil in order to obtain magical abilities‚ usually to harm others. However‚ witches in Africa and the West Indies involved concepts other than the devil. From the

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    history in the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. The Salem Witchcraft Trials still leaves this country with so many questions as to what happened in that small town. With all the documentation and accounts of the story‚ people are still wondering why 19 people died as a result of these trials. The events leading up to the Salem Witch Trials and the events that took place during and after the trial are all still looked at today by historians. Many historians interpret the Salem Witch Trials in different ways

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    In the late spring of 1962 in a village name Salem a group of young girls claimed to possessed name such as the devil. These young girls accused some of the women’s from the village of doing witchcraft. There were also around 150 mans including the woman’s and children accused of witchcraft leading to nineteen men and women to be hanged. Three reasons why led this people to believe was “the teenage boredom”‚ the stimulation of imaginations of Tituba‚ and a belief that Satan was recruiting witches

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