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The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller, in 1953, about the Salem With Trials. The Salem With Trials are a series of court trials against witches in the city of Salem during 1692. Over the course of this year, some teenage girls in the colony accused citizens of the city of being witches, which caused mass hysteria throughout out America. The conditions for this mass hysteria were perfect, in part due to economic reasons, but mostly due to the Puritan society that Salem was engrossed in. This was the first mass hysteria event in American history, several other witch hunts have occurred since then, such as "the red scare" and looking for terrorists in the early 2000's.