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Puritans-Protestant Christians unhappy with the England church.
Protestant Christians-Christians who do not believe in Catholicism.
Witch-A person who has been inhabited or taken over by the Devil.
Hallucinogens-Medicines/drugs that cause hallucinations.
Paranoia-The irrational fear of something.

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-Occurred in 1692
-19 people were hanged and 1 pressed to death
-Puritans arrived in New England in the 1600s
-Believed the bible to be true
-Believed in the Devil
-Believed the Devil would possess people and turn them into witches
-Girls started showing strange behavior
-Number of accusers grew
-People started to be hanged
-Governor's wife was accused, which helped stop the killing
-Historians believe it may have been because of hallucinogens or paranoia

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Nowadays, Salem is known as Danvers, Massachusetts

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Another important reason for the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria was just an overall fear, or paranoia.  This fear was caused by the amount of people who were killed for being a "witch".  20 people in total were killed for practicing witchcraft. (Doc A)

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Another reason the people of Salem Massachusetts thought witches were real is because of there lack of knowledge. Back then they believed everything god said. So when people started acting like witches and the bible said they were real people believed it. They also had knowledge to say that witches were real or fake so they had to believe the girls when they were pretending to be witches.

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One of the main reasons people accused other people was jealousy. One of the possible reasons someone would accuse someone else of witchcraft would be because of jealousy or hate towards someone else. Then when one person got accused everyone would have thought that people they did not like were witches.

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The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria was caused by the power difference between the population.  Those who lived on the west were poorer than those who lived on the east. Most of the "witches" lived on the western side, while most of the accusers lived on the eastern side. (Doc E)

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This is a map of the village of Salem and those who were accused and those who were the accusers.

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People thought witches were real because of the young girls acting like they had been possessed by a witch.(Doc C) They also thought witches were real because the bible said they were real and they believed every word the bible said.

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The Hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials came from many different reasons. Power, jealousy, acting, paranoia, and lack of knowledge.