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Overall Summary of SWT |
happened in Massachusetts between 1692-1693. 200+ people were accused for witchcraft and 20 were executed. Witchcraft craze in EU from 1300s to 1600s. Salem trials happened as EU craze started to die down |
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1689 |
English rulers Williams and Mary started King William's War between French and American colonies and it ravaged Salem in the Mass Bay colony |
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Samuel Parris |
Salem's first minister and many disliked him because he was greedy |
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Elizabeth Parris |
Parris's daughter that starts to have fits |
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Abigail Williams |
Parris's niece and starts to have fits as well along with Elizabeth |
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Ann Putnam |
Another girl who starts to have the same symptoms as well |
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Who accused the three women for being witches? |
Jonathan Corwin and John Hawthorne |
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Tituba |
She was a slave that confessed to being a witch and mentioned that there were other witches looking to destroy the Puritans |
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Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne |
They were both accused of being witches and claimed to be innocent. |
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Dozen of people in Salem were questioned in April when Deputy Governor ____________ began attending the hearing |
Thomas Danforth |
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When did Governor Williams Phipps established the Special Court of Over? |
May 27, 1692 |
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Who was the first woman who was hanged on June 10? |
Bridget Bishop |
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Where were the 'witches' executed? |
Gallows Hill |
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19 people were hanged on Gallows hill by |
May 1693 |
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Who was pressed to death with heavy stones? |
Giles Corey |
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What happened after the Salem Witch trials? |
Many like judge Samuel Sewell confessed to error and guilt, general court ordered day of soul searching for the tragedy 1702 court decided trials to be unlawful 1711 colony reimbursed the victim's families 1957 Massachusetts formally apologized for the trials |
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What was the trials used as? |
It was used as a allegory for McCarthyism Paranoia |
