salem witch trials by CAMERON EWING https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z by Cameron Ewing,Garrett Heath,Andrew Moreno en-us 2017-08-30 12:38:29 UTC 2017-09-06 12:29:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png Salem Witch Trials cameron_ewing1 https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183652984 2017-08-30 12:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183652984 cameron_ewing1 https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183653905
]]> 2017-08-30 12:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183653905 http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/education cameron_ewing1 https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183654973 In January of 1692, the daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village became ill. When they failed to improve, the village doctor, William Griggs, was called in. His diagnosis of bewitchment put into motion the forces that would ultimately result in the death by hanging of nineteen men and women. In addition, one man was crushed to death; seven others died in prison, and the lives of many were irrevocably changed.

To understand the events of the Salem witch trials, it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of witchcraft occurred. There were the ordinary stresses of 17th-century life in Massachusetts Bay Colony. A strong belief in the devil, factions among Salem Village fanatics and rivalry with nearby Salem Town, a recent small pox epidemic and the threat of attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion. Soon prisons were filled with more than 150 men and women from towns surrounding Salem. Their names had been "cried out" by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. All would await trial for a crime punishable by death in 17th-century New England, the practice of witchcraft.

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From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided.


Why did this travesty of justice occur? Why did it occur in Salem? Nothing about this tragedy was inevitable. Only an unfortunate combination of an ongoing frontier war, economic conditions, congregational strife, teenage boredom, and personal jealousies can account for the spiraling accusations, trials, and executions that occurred in the spring and summer of 1692...

]]> 2017-08-30 12:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183656569 http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials cameron_ewing1 https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183658133 The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were accused over the next several months. By September 1692, the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials. Though the Massachusetts General Court later annulled guilty verdicts against accused witches and granted indemnities to their families, bitterness lingered in the community, and the painful legacy of the Salem witch trials would endure for centuries.]]> 2017-08-30 13:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cameron_ewing1/ij8vye2oxb5z/wish/183658133