Amanda Whitsett Robison History 1301 November 17‚ 2010 The Social Psychology of the Salem Witch Trials The events that took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692 have had historians scrutinizing over the causes for years. There have been several theories about how the situation became so out of control. The haunting story is well known in America‚ taught to our youth and has been the focus of numerous forms of media. We are familiar with the story but unfamiliar with the origin of its
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be a trial. When the outbreak broke out everyone was so scared and just started to accuse people in the village if they did one wrong move. There were more people getting charged and going to jail then there was of people getting sent to the gallow’s. When it all broke out it scared people‚ the aftermath was sad for families who were in it and the possible causes of why it started all line up. Spring of 1692 in Salem village‚ Massachusetts was where the Salem witch trials took place ("Salem Witch
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The New Nation Forms The Witches of Salem/The Salem Witch Trials “The devil came to me and bid me serve him” (Blumburg). According to Jess Blumburg‚ a writer and a historian‚ these were the words that started the Salem witch trials. Tituba was a slave living with the Parris family when she was swept away into the nonsense that was the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials happened in Massachusetts in 1692 and 1693. Around 200 people‚ in the town of salem‚ were accused of witchcraft‚ and twenty
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wolves. As with all witch-hunts…” "Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue." Goodreads. N.p.‚ n.d. Web”. The Salem witch trials brought about hostility within a community causing unwarranted chaos and corruption in the small town of Salem Mass. Furthermore‚ these events lead to witch trials becoming a problem in Salem. The Salem witch trials had started with a domino effect of trials such as‚ “The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692‚ after a group of young girls in Salem Village‚
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Rachel Ditmore Would the Salem Witch Trials have occurred if the Bill of Rights had existed at that time? English II AP 9/28/2012 "I PLEAD THE FIFTH!!" this along with the courtesies included in the Bill of Rights gave the citizens of a newly founded country liberties that were not granted to them before. A prime example of these injustices is the Salem Witch Trials as described by Arthur Miller in The Crucible. For example‚ the first amendment guarantees freedom to practice religion
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22/2/17SALEM WITCHTRIALSA HAUNTING REALITY...Sarah Good‚ Bridget Bishop‚ Rebecca Nurse‚ Elizabeth Howe‚Susannah Martin. The list of names that have burned themselves into thehistory of America goes on and on. It all started in Salem‚ Massachusettsaround spring time of 1692‚ The salem witch trials. Over 200 would betrialed or accused and around twenty total were hung on the infamousgallows hill. After the European’s paranoia of witchcraft happened thecolonial americas would begin doubting their own people to
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A review of A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials‚ by Laurie Winn Carlson‚ Ivan R. Dee‚ Chicago‚ 2000; 224 pp. $14.95 Paperback. ISBN: 1-566633095 A FEVER IN SALEM POSITS A biological cause for the early modem witchcraft epidemic‚ which resulted in the hanging of 19 people in Salem‚ MA‚ in 1692. Witchcraft persecution‚ Laurie Carlson writes‚ arose because of the strange behavior of the supposedly bewitched accusers. She concludes that the cause was a disease unrecognizable
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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. Had the people of Salem not
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The Salem Witch Trials Many people have innocently went to prison or payed for crimes they have never committed over the course of history. The Salem Witch trials is the most known tragedy in which many lost their lives due to false accusations of participating in witchcraft in a puritan community. These trials would forever put in shame the name of Salem due to the injustice done to the innocent by people who wanted to take the guilt and shame off themselves First and fore more the
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there in a court room being accused for being a witch. Sadly this is what happened in the Salem Witch Trials‚ which occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials were a dark time in American history‚ because innocent people were hanged. This was a period of time were villagers were accusing each other of being witches. Twenty people were hanged because of villagers accusing them of practicing witch craft. The Salem Witch Trials occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts. This began in the winter of
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