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SALEM WITCH TRIALS PRESENTATION
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Salem witch trials
A defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history
What were the salem witch trials?
The Salem witch trials were a series of trials, prosecutions, and executions of people accused of practicing witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693.
Puritans, who sought freedom from the Church of England, established communities in New England in the early 1600s.
WHEN DID THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS HAPPEN?
5. Tensions between the rural Salem Village and Salem Town
4. Dry summers and cold winters
3. A smallpox epidemic
2. Conflicts against the Indigenous
What were the real causes of the trials?
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1. Conflicts against French colonists
How did the crisis start?
The crisis began when Betty Parris and Abigail Williams started acting strangely, convulsing and speaking in unknown languages. The girls accused Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba.
BRIDGET BISHOP
TITUBA
By October 1692, Governor William Phips replaced the court with a new one that no longer accepted spectral evidence.
The End of the Trials
How did the victims die?
The executions took place on Gallows Hill. The accused were hanged or they died in prison.
There is also the Salem Haunted Happenings Festival during the period of Halloween.
What does salem's halloween celebration have to do with the salem witch trials?
Salem is known as "the Witch City". The witch symbol is used on "The Salem News" logo, on Salem police cars, and on the local high school football team's uniforms.