Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings conducted in Colonial Massachusetts beginning in 1692 to prosecute people accused of witchcraft. Of the dozens convicted of witchcraft, 19 were executed by hanging.
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Marissa1207Cotton MatherEDIT:There's also his father, Increase, Nicholas Noyes and Samuel Willard.
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We do not know exactly what happened to her, however the story you rmentioned is one of the msot famous legends.
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He often was the one to file the official complaints against the accused.
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Salem Witch Trials The outbreak of witch accusations in the late 17th Century is one of the most well-known events of America's...
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During: People either thought that the trials were doing "gods" work or that the accussers were wrong and off their...
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The governor banned the insubstanital evidence the convictions were based on after some high profile people were accused....
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During the era the trials occurred during, sporting was used to mean fun. In reference to the trials, it was used by the...
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they stack blocks of wood on u and continue to add more until u confess.That only occurred in a single case: Giles Corey's. The...
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She is believed to have been 17.
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Salem didn't really have long term effects. It was a localized event that spawned lawsuits and arguments for fifteen years....
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The people who remained in jail were released when they paid their room and board. A slue of lawsuits flowed into the Salem and...
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The Salem Witch Trials was in Salem, Massachusetts I believe where people were being accused of being witches and having the...
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the Salem Witch trails took place in 1692 and the first amendment was adopted December 15, 1791 so they could not be violating...
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He remained in Salem for four years after the trials, despite th epublic's obvious detest. He then left for Stow and after...
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Salem Witch Trials Salem Witch Trials began in 1692. As history would have you believe it the mass hysteria of the...
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They both deal with the community turning on each other due to false accusations, in the Salem Witch trails, Abigail is the one...
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Although there is no concrete evidence to support it many rumors were disvovered that she was a prostitute in Boston and had a...
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1.) The town would watch as the accused would recite the Lord's Prayer. If they were truly the devil's servant, they would not be...
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The trials officially ended because once the queen was accused she demanded that the trials be stoppedEDIT:The Queen was not...
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The last Salem witch trial was in may of 1693.The last witch trial was in Germany in the earky 1800s.
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There would not have been a reward in Puritan-controlled Massachusetts.
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They hurt innocent people
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There isn't is no compromise for the Salem witch trials DDD: define compromise? is there anything good that came out of it? no....
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they were similar because they both involved government sponsored persecution of innocent peoples using circumstantial,...
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Her mother had been accused and examined. She would have been an obvious next target had the girls been picking and choosing who...
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AnswerBy the end of the Salem witch trials, 20 people were dead. 19 by hanging and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death....
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The following link contains information pertaining the this question: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/salem.htm
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The conflict is between religion and common sense. Religion said the girls were bewitched and telling the truth. Common sense...
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Around fifty including:Abigail Hobbs Margaret Jacobs Sarah Churchwell Tituba Mary Lacey sr Mary Lacey jr Mary Warren ...
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There were over 160 people accused of being involved in witchcraft - 19 were hanged and 1 was pressed to death. Also, there were...
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Answerin 1702 the general court of Massachusetts overturned the convictions for witchcraft and in 1711 they granted compensation...
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AnswerExecuted for witchcraft by hanging were: Bridget Bishop - June 10th, 1692Rebecca Nurse - July 19th, 1692 Susannah Martin ...
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people...
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AnswerTo ways that people (mostly women) were tested was:1. A lake would be blest, the the person who was accused would have...
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No there was not a juryEDIT:Instead of a jury voting on inncoent or guilty, a panel of judges, who knew what they were doing more...
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Chief JudgeWilliam StoughtonAssociate JudgesJonathan Corwin, SalemThomas Danforth, BostonBartholomew Gedney, SalemJohn Hathorne,...
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If a person is guilty of being a witch they where hung, drowned or burned if they survived (unlikely) they where killed, if they...
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i have no clue! Back then people tried to kill people who they thought were witches. If the person was a witch she would save...
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Nineteen were hung, at least one man was crushed to death, and approximately 150 were imprisoned.
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They actually occurred over two years. They began in May of 1692 and ended in February of 1693.
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The religious zealots. <----- This answer is not true. The real truth is that in 1688, Samuel Parris was invited to preach at...
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It wasn't as many as they like to make you think it was. It was actually less than 30. <--- Partially true. From June 10th to...
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"Was there a drummer at the SalemYes, there was. If you go to the Salem Witch History Museum in Salem, Mass., there is a...
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Most likely they would have died, slowly. In that time, if you were accused of been a witch (whom were mostly women). You will...
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Often women accused their enemies or people with whom they did not get along of being witches. Often those enemies were...
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Salem, Massachusetts.
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The Salem Witchcraft Trials had a large impact on the community. During the time of the trials, no one was around to take care of...
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Nineteen. Fourteen women and five men.
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AnswerHer name was Betty Parris and she was nine-years-old.
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The events in Salem, MA, of 1692 offer little significance to the history of literature. The trials are important, however, as a...
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Dorcas Good, four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good, became the first child to be accused of witchcraft when three of the girls...
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Rampant fear based on pure prejudice and lack of understanding. Trumped up charges, trials and effective punishment without any...
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The Salem Witch trials began in February. This is important to note because it is thought that the original accusers were victims...
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Many innocent lives were lost to ignorance, and religion.
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I got no idea
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Fourteen women and five men were hanged, one man was crushed to death and at least five others died while in prison.and some...
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After the witch trials Elizabeth Proctor survived. Elizabeth was pregnant and therefore was spared. She also later got married...
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differences Salem witch trials were accused for being witches and the Jews involving the holocaust were accused for their...
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Bridget Bishop Rebecca Nurse Susannah Martin Elizabeth Howe Sarah Good Sarah Wilds George Jacobs Sr. Martha Carrier ...
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Both are great examples of innocent people being scapegoated for things they were not responsible for. Both are also examples of...
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AnswerThe Salem Witch Trials started when several young girls began to accuse several people of being a witch. Simply because the...
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The better question would be "what WERE the Salem witch trials?silly girl they would say". It was a time (a little over a year)...
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betty parris and Abigail Williams accused the ministers wife and then they found out that Abigail Williams and betty parris were...
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With hundreds in jail, the economy suffered because less and less people were actually working. The abandonment of farms because...
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They didn't. The traditional witch tests were not employed in Salem. The afflicted girls accused someone and that was the...
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Salem, Massachusetts
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Ignorance coupled with Zealousness. Ignorance breeds fear and hate that escalates to horrendous deed. Zealousness makes man an...
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She was woman in good standing in the community who was accused, tried and executed on *16 July 1692. *It was the 19th of July,...
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It's important for students - and populations-at-large - to be familiar with their country's history. The Salem Witch Trials hold...
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20 people killed 19 of them hanged the other was crushed to death (a board was placed on his body and piled high with boulders)
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Betty Parris' mother was not dead, but very much alive at the time. She died in 1696, four years after the events. Soon after...
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the inecent people were killed because of some stupid lil girls
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Hanging and one man was pressed to death there were also some who died in prison who were accused as witches
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A year and four months.
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Between February 1692 and May 1693, over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused who were not formally...
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It was witchcraft. That caused hysteria.. ---------------- One of the theories i read about was that the wet fall weather caused...
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no they didn't deserve it for being a piece of crap witchEdit:What's above is just rude and none of them were actually witches....
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Conditions in prison weren't the best. Sarah Osbourne, one of those who died in jail, had been ill for a few years before the...
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That's not really a question, but it was obviously in 1690, and The story started off with lady's dancing in the forest, and then...
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There were several conflicts and compromises in the Salem Witchcraft Trials. One of the main conflicts was the acceptance of...
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The Salem Witch Trials were done for religious purposes. (witches- people who work with Satan) McCarthyism was done for political...
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they lasted six months and twenty two days
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possible ways society could of preventd the Salem witch trials is if they stuck to their beliefs and not think about witch vraft...
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It was resolved by the governor in 2001 after much lobbying on the part of a school teacher. All were declared innocent and free...
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Basically, by killing them. One test they used to determine wether someone was a witch or not was to tie up the accused person...
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intresting question!Not much is known about the lives of the accusers after the event. One openly apologies for her actions.
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Conflict: Over 150 people, men and women, were accused of being possessed by the devil. 19 people were hanged, 1 was crushed to...
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They would tie up women that looked a bit like witches and would throw them into water. If they didn't float they were not a...
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Sometime toward the end of January, 1692, Betty Parris, nine year-old daughter of the Reverend Samuel Parris, became ill. She...
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The clergy were the ones who explained the biblical justification for arresting, trying, and executing witches. Of course, that...
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because it wasnt the salem court trails duhhh
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The people of Salem had no explanation for what ailed the afflicted and were afraid of it. Blaming witches and attempting to get...
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John Indian was married to Tituba in the Salem witch trials. Tituba and John made the witch cakes for the dogs to eat and see if...
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