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The Salem Witch Trials was a   prosecution of people being accused of witch-craft. It took place in Massechusetts from February 1692 to May 1693. They were killed either by being hanged or being pressed, having a lot of weight put on your till you are crushed to death.

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We think that the Salem Witch Trials were people who were messing around at first and then it got serious, and believed in witchcraft or had strong religious beleifs and also used it as an excuse for like rivlry against people like the rich and poor cause rich obvisously  had a lot more than the poor which would make them jealous.

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According to document G it said, "the “afflicted children” and their associates?… It was perhaps their original design to gratify a love of notoriety or of mischief by creating…excitement in their neighborhood…" So it's saying the children were doing mischeif creating people to be accuse others of withcraft.

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In document B it listed all the people that were hung or died from being accused of witchcraft. For example, Thomas Oliver accused her of witchcraft, claiming that "she was a bad wife. . . the devil had come bodily to her . . . and she sat up all night with the devil." So just because she was a bad wife he accused her and got her killed kind of like rivlry.

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Based on document D, you can see people examining this woman for having a marking on her body and they thought she was a witch.

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In document F, it said, "(Bridget Bishop) I know nothing of it. I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is." So she didn't even know what a witch was but they were still accusing her and people were still accusing her because girls were either faking or acting to make people believe she was a witch. Getting her hung.

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“Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.”
This quote is from the bible and its saying they will not let a witch live and if someone is accused they die so people with strong religious beliefs would listen to this. (Document A)

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Document E didn't really help because it just told us numbers and descriptions of who were accused not really reasons or why they were accused which is more of what we need to know.

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In conclusion we think that the salem witch trials happened because people accused other for witchcraft. This happened by people starting it as a joke sorta but it got serious so then people started believing in witchcraft and brought religous beliefs into it and used it as an excuse for rivalry.

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Giles Corey confessed to witchcraft and just said "more weight"

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In Massachusetts it show the triangles and the squares. The triangles represent the accused. There were 21 accused and 19 were hung. The squares are accusers. There were 34 accusers.

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When someone was accused of being witch they would be hung. Sometimes people would plead to not being a witch but they hung them anyway.