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The Salem Witch Trials are trials that took place 1692-1693 in Salem Massachuets. There were people accusing others of working with the devil and being witches. They then had-unfair for today's standards- trials. With no real evidence except for girls saying they saw Bridget- the first dead-bewitching them, the hung Bridget and that began it all. About 20 people were killed during this time period. Most of them by hanging but one person, Giles Corey, by being crushed. There were still a lot of people in jail by the time the trials finished.

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What do we think caused the Salem Witch Trials?

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What do we think caused the Salem Witch Trials?

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We think that the accusers lying to get attention caused the Salem Witch Trials. We also think they just did it to create mischeif and greed.

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We disagree with this document because it tells us what the accuser said about the "Witch". In the document it states, "But since that, she hath grievously afflicted by biting, pinching, and pricking me, (and) urging me to write in her

Book". We believe from the other documents that from the other documents that they only did that because of greed. We believe that this person was falsely accusing this person because of something they did.

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We agree with this document because it has most of the same ideas on what caused the Salem witch trials. In the document it states, "What are we to think of those persons who commenced and continued the accusations – the “afflicted children” and their associates?… It was perhaps their original design to gratify a love of notoriety or mischief by creating…excitement in their neighborhood…". This proves our point because it says that people just did that to create mischeif. But then people started to take it seriously and they started taking it to court and killing the "witches".

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We agree with the map because it shows us that the witches were farther away from the Accusers for them to actually acuse them and get it right. The map shows people around the Saleam area and it shows where the witches, accusers, and defenders are. It also shows us how far away witch person was from each other. And the witches were pretty far from there.

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We agree with this document because it states the past times in one of the accused witches. In the document it states,"Rebecca was from Topsfield, whose town

authorities had for years been harassing the Putnam family by

claiming that parts of their lands actually lay in Topsfield rather

than in Salem Village. And her husband Francis had been involved

during the 1670s in a protracted dispute with Nathaniel Putnam

(Ann’s father-in-law) over some mutually bounded acreage". This proves that she had some bad things that had happened to her. We also belive that the accusers accused her so they sould take back their land and they had excuses on why she might have done that. Like it says that the town authorities harssed the Putnam family. They could've said that since her family was being harrased so they tried to put attention off of them.

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In conclusion we think that it is clear that the girls faked and lied about Bridget being a witch. They just wanted attention but it got to be too much and 20 people were killed. There were no such thing as witches and there still aren't. That's why we think that witches aren't real and the girls faked it and it got too real.