ipl-logo

Salem Witch Trials Of 1692: A Dark Time In American History

644 Words3 Pages

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a dark time in American history, more than 200 people were accused of witchcraft and 20 were executed. The Salem Witch Trials started when three girls accused three women of witchcraft and they were thrown in jail. The Trials were a worldwide thing and are still talked about today as a terror in American history. The main points of the trials that we’ll learn is You can’t force an answer out of someone, You can’t accuse someone of something just because of what they say, just because someone sees something doesn’t mean it’s true. Unless there is solid proof you are innocent until proven guilty. You can’t force an answer out of someone by violence. When they start dancing in the forest and their doing rituals Tituba is with them and they blame her as the one who started the witchcraft. In Act I Goody Osborn says “ Tituba knows how to speak to the devil.” There’s no proof Tituba spoke to the devil and the only reason she confessed is because she was being whipped and was in pain so she confessed. In today’s modern society we would not force an answer out and do our research and series of tests to figure out what really happened. If you force an answer out of someone by …show more content…

If someone says something to you in a real life situation and someone else says another thing then it really is hard to decide which one is the correct one. For example in Act III, Judge Danforth asked Elizabeth Proctor about her husband’s adultery crime asking “Is your husband a leecher.” by wording the question so that it favors Abigail and makes her husband sound like a bad guy. If this was a case in a modern crime case they wouldn’t have the people facing the wall and it would be a even worded question so it favors no one. If you were asked about if your spouse committed a crime or something you dearly love you most likely wouldn’t want to go against them and convict

Show More
Related
1753 Words | 8 Pages

The Salem Witch Trials wrongly convicted over one hundred fifty people through unfair court cases in 1692, due to the bias of the people, the unpassable tests used, and the illegal way they were run. The convictions were all done in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which was created by the current Governor Sir William Phips, and led by Chief Judge William Stoughton, along with 6 other judges (EB 1) (Boraas 24). This court was closed within the year, and a new court was opened, the Superior Court of Judicature, which was less unfair, and made no convictions during the time it was open. This court was then also closed after a few months (EB 1). During the trials, every sort of person was accused, from rich to poor.

Read More
1006 Words | 5 Pages

Three Sovereigns for Sarah tells the Story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, I will explain the Key factors as to why the Witchcraft Hysteria even took place over 300 years ago. First, it’s important to know the background of the dwellers from Salem and origins of the dwellers at the time. Almost 90 years prior to the trials, many British citizens and their families had finally migrated to “The New World” (America) at around 1607, after discovering the new land many sought to begin new lives pursuing a perceived economically successful Country. As Well as Religion played a Huge part in British Migration due to many seeking a Free land where one could freely believe and practice their beliefs without the threat of religious persecution amongst them. From the many Religions to sprout from this transition, the Puritan Belief was one

Read More
2485 Words | 10 Pages

It was said that Tituba had a circle of witches, almost like a witch army that she commanded that would attack other people with. After a while, people believed that Tituba’s circle met inside of the Parris household. (See Figure 1 in the Appendix) Tituba disappeared after the trials, and was never seen

Read More
1926 Words | 8 Pages

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692: Misunderstood Reasons for Behavior How can people tell what actually happened during the Salem Witch Trials? How and why did these trials begin in the first place? The Salem Witch Trials began in Salem Massachusetts in 1692, soon after Samuel Parris and his family moved to the town. Parris brought with him two slaves but one, Tibuta, was in charge of looking after the girls Betty Parris, age 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, age 11. Tibuta told the girls and their friends about voodoo and magic and even made them “witch cakes.”

Read More
809 Words | 4 Pages

I chose to do this term paper on the Salem Witch Trials because this topic has always fascinated me. I watched a movie when I was younger called “The Crucible” and it was interesting to me. I have always wondered if these people was innocent, or really “witches.” Why were all these people killed? Was these people men or women?

Read More
2248 Words | 9 Pages

So, it turns out that witchcraft wasn’t the problem afterall. If the court would’ve taken this mental disorder theory into consideration, and stopped accepting just spectral evidence, many more innocent lives would’ve been saved. In fact, the trials probably wouldn’t’ve taken place at

Read More
894 Words | 4 Pages

Tens of thousands of Native Americans lived in Massachusetts prior to colonization in 17 century. European traders and fisherman were carelessly introduced diseases to Native tribes and it devastated their people. Much of the Land was vacant and available to settle. Colonization began in the 1620 with two Massachusetts and Plymouth Colony. Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were dark times in American History in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Read More
1606 Words | 7 Pages

The Salem Witch Trials were a series of events that occurred within the 1690's. The numerous allegations lead to hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women. Additionally, the accusations lead to community wide hysteria and blood thirst for the death of nearly all the accused witches.

Read More
946 Words | 4 Pages

The Massachusetts Bay Experiment was a colony founded on extreme puritan principal. It was to be a community of “Visible Saints”, for all other religions to look upon, where they could practice their puritan beliefs freely. Whenever there was a problem within the colony the puritans always looked to the church for answers. Since this was such a theocratic society, one could see just how an event such as The Salem Witch Trials could occur. Many historians attribute the cause of the Salem witch trials to various different reasons, it is evident through the various trials and reactions of the people being tried, that the Salem witch trials occurred because of the extremist views of the puritans.

Read More
1887 Words | 8 Pages

In 1692, A town in Massachusetts by the name of Salem Village found itself in one most documented cases of mass hysteria in history. This saga started with three girls: Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Parris, and Ann Putnam a neighborhood friend. Abigail Williams, the niece of the town’s minister, began to display weird and questionable behavior. The town’s physician,William Greggs, was called to determine the cause of this sporadic behavior. The town’s physician determined that the three girls were under “the Devil’s influence” and they had been bewitched.

Read More
805 Words | 4 Pages

The Salem Witch Trials In the summer of 1692, a series of unfortunate events occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, The Salem Witch Trials. These witch trials resulted in the deaths of a score of people, both men and women and imprisonment of more than 200 of the villages residents (Blumberg). There are endless reasons as to why the Puritan village went into hysterics, including but not limited to paranoia, the Puritan’s strict religion, conflict between residents, economic turmoil, an ongoing war, and unexplainable events(Linder).

Read More
443 Words | 2 Pages

many similarities to the affairs that were unfolding around the author at the time of writing, the mass hysteria aroused by the communists ‘witch-hunts’ of cold war, 1950s America. As we follow the harrowing results of released repression, the hysterical accusations of Salem bears direct resemblance to communist McCarthyism as well as other similarities that unfold as the play narrates one of the most tragic periods of American history. Amidst the apparently insipid, puritanical village of Salem there was little controversy due to its populations consent to theocratic autocracy however this apparent peaceful, holy sanctuary was rife with evils that conjured the demonic hysteria throughout Salem village; these were caused by an amalgamation

Read More
1772 Words | 8 Pages

of a mirror, stopped it with a touch of a finger, and then released it. As soon as it was released, the egg began to spin again, as if by magic.” Then they would stare into the mirror in hopes of seeing their future. During a session of this white magic, the group of girls, it is believed that Betty, Abigail, and other neighborhood teens played, one or two claimed they had seen a casket looking shape. Some historians believed that this was a basis of what happened in Salem with the girls.

Read More
812 Words | 4 Pages

The Salem Witch Trials occured on February 1692 - May 1693 and caused many of issues and effected a lot of people. It caused a lot of people to be killed for no reason. People abused it in so many ways and just had people killed because they didn't like them or wanted their land, and it could even because they wanted to be with that person's husband or just be cause of jealousy. It made them fear people because if you make anyone mad they could just turn on you and try to say your a witch to have you killed or sent to jail. But it also didn't take much to convince people and get people to act like someone casted a spell on them to have them executed so that they could get attention.

Read More
1223 Words | 5 Pages

REVIEW OF LITRATURE A.) SUMMARY SOURCE A Although the whole book had information on the Salem witch trials. The introduction, chapter 1 and 2 and the conclusion had information regarding the research needed • Introduction: states what the Salem witch trials where and who they accused.

Read More

More about Salem Witch Trials Of 1692: A Dark Time In American History

Related Topics

Open Document