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    The Salem Witch Trials The Salem Village that is now found in present day Massachusetts has a haunting past that left colonists dead‚ filled with fear‚ superstition of witches‚ and devils. The Salem Witch Trials was a great disaster that happened in early colonial days. The Colony was one of the puritan colonies. This great disaster happened in the year 1692. Due to the fear in the colony a lot of people who were innocent and some that were guilty were put to death. One of the causes of this disaster

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    January 1692‚ the colony of Salem‚ Massachusetts would encounter a situation that would change the small colony forever. That year the quiet town would endure a 9-month long span of trials of witchcraft that would leave 200 accused witches and 20 dead. The trials were based on religious beliefs and would separate all the “unholy” citizens from the community. The trials separated the community based on fear and individuals singling out others based on class. The witch-hunts have affected modern society

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    Potent similarities of different patterns and genres are found between the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism even though there was a significant period of time that separated them. The Salem witch trials began in 1692 and caused panic‚ confusion‚ and disorder as a result of witchcraft accusations in both Salem Village and Salem Town‚ Massachusetts. McCarthyism‚ which was presided over by J.‚ Parnell Thomas from the 1940s to the 1950s‚ first originated in the HUAC (House of Un-American Activities

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    The Salem witchcraft trials were a horrific set of events that caused harm to many people‚ but it was essentially bound to happen. That is not to say that that exact thing had to happen‚ but due to the society of the day‚ a conflict of some sort was basically guaranteed. Because of everything going on with politics and religion‚ combined with the way of society‚ it was something of a powder keg where no one could guess what‚ but it could be seen that something bad was bound to happen. One of the

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    The Salem Witch Trials‚ which occurred in the late 1600s‚ was a time of accusation and injustice that taints America’s history. One of the judges responsible for sentencing the accused to death‚ regardless of a lack of evidence‚ was John Hathorne‚ the great-great-grandfather of the famous American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne grew up listening to the stories of his great-great grandfather influencing him to write stories about the Puritan society and the Salem Witch Trials‚ which

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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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    religious views‚ they saw the change that was taking place so they flee from their mother land seeking to purify their beliefs once more. The Salem witch trials were a significant part of history because it showed the government that religious can’t be mixed with social and political rights because of the strict or tight interpretation it provides. The trials were run by multiple factors such as fear from accusation‚ a hunger for power or grater wealth‚ the strict interpretation of the bible set by

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    the Puritan girls accusations‚ Tituba eventually admitted to being a witch claiming that devil forced her to do so and said that evil was looming over Salem. Two other women who were alleged as witches denied any wrongdoing but because of Tituba’s testimony‚ the view of the people changed. Many were condemned‚ mainly starting with those who were looked down upon by the townspeople but later more respected people were put on trial. Most "witches" were found guilty of witchcraft and were subsequently

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    conclusion that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Abigail‚ Danforth‚ and Reverend Paris each of these people‚ in some way cause harm to blameless people‚ and I will in this essay‚ explain what these people‚ knowingly and unknowingly did not contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches in Salem Village in 1962. Abigail was most responsible for the Salem witch hysteria. She had tons of different opportunities to

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    The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is one of the most well-known historical events. In 1692‚ 20 people were hanged for being a so-called “witch.” Most accusations were made by six girls‚ which included Betty Parris‚ Abigail Williams‚ and Ann Putnam Jr.. Witches were people whose bodies had supposedly been taken over by The Devil. But what really caused the Salem Witch Trials hysteria? The three reasons that caused the mass hysteria were how certain people‚ ages‚ genders‚ and marital statuses were targeted

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