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The famous episode in American history, the Salem witch trials of 1692, resulted in the execution by hanging fourteen women and five men accused of being witches. one man was also pressed to death by heavy weights, for refusing to plea. Eight people died in prison, including one infant and one child. More than one hundred and fifty individuals were jailed, while awaiting trial. Due to many relevant records, including notes, depositions, and official rulings, the main facts of the accusations,…

Salem lacking a governor gave them no authority figure, leading to chaos. Since Massachusetts was still under the rule of Great Britain, they had to send over any government officials over to America from Britain. While the colony was waiting for their new governor to arrive, the witch trials took place and “By the time the new governor, William Phips, arrived in Massachusetts, the jails were already filed with alleged witches” (Life in Salem 1692, par. 2). This proves that the fact that Salem…

Although the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism isn’t know to have any common relationship, you’d be surprise how much similarities the two events have in common. If not known, McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard or evidence. The Salem Witch Trials was a time in Massachusetts where more than two-hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft and twenty people were executed. Both these events took place in the U.S although it was…

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 Lies. Pain. Death. The Salem Witch Trials were a horrible time for many innocent people; to the way it started, to the way it ended. There were more than 200 accusations of witchcraft, 20 executions and many other deaths due to starvation and bad treatment in jails. This event marked Massachusetts’s history, by its atrocious and dreadful history. 1. The Beginning The Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, when a group of young girls started…

twenty-first century studies on the Salem Witch Trials, some other psychological and gender issues appear. Mary Beth Norton, an American historian, looks at these issues as a cause of the fits that the girls had. The girls may have had fits as a guilty response towards the participation in fortune telling. Norton also attributes the cause to the post-traumatic experiences that the Indian War caused on the population. Norton is unclear of the roots cause of the Salem Witch Hysteria as she says it…

The Salem Witch Trials In the 14th century, a witch superstition broke out in Europe. When Europeans found the colonies, this belief carried over to their new lands. Many of the settlers, as the colonies gained age, still were very suspicious about the existence of witches. So, when a smallpox epidemic broke out in the mid 17th century, people once again became fearful of witches. The Salem Witch trials are a series of trials that began due to the fear that had erupted and taken place in the…

The Salem Witch Trials were “unfair” throughout countless eyes of villagers that lived in Salem village during this ghastly era. These trials were conducted on people that were either “seen” conducting strange activity or exhibiting strange behavior. The villagers called these people who were accused of showing abnormal behavior, witches. These witches are then brought to court and tried against the judges. The judges would then determine whether the witch would be announced innocent or would be…

elucidate why the Salem witch trials occurred, yet I have found that the most reasonable explanation for this tragedy is it was a product of the political repression in Salem’s community. In 1692, the village of Salem was inhabited by the Puritans and was ruled by a strict theocracy whose “function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction” (Miller 7). However, while the intentions of the church and state of Salem were for the good…

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum explain how Salem Town and Salem Village had social and financial issues between each other which was like a war between the two leading up to what we know as the Salem Witch Trials. Salem Possessed sheds more light on the Salem Witch Trials, than that of what we learned in school and of what I thought I knew. The Witch Trials were mainly caused by the feuds between the Town and the Village about the village becoming its own entity and being independent, money,…

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and consisted of prosecutions of women and some men who were thought to have been practicing witchcraft. These women were taken to trial, and if they were convicted of practicing witchcraft, they were violently put to death. With the rising tensions in the colony, The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were caused by curiosity in religious beliefs, young women claiming they were possessed by the devil, and troubles arising among the community. By this point the…