The Salem Witch Trials Compared to the U.S. After 9/11 The Salem Witch Trials were a series of executions due to members of the Salem community accusing one another of being witches and wizards. The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts. The event we Americans know as 9/11 took place in New York City on September 11, 2001. Both events, varying in period of time, were substantially large mass killings in the United Staes at that point in time. As a result, they are many similarities between the two, but the differences are quite significant. Some factors between the two events make them both very similar in how they affected our nation. Both events took place on American soil, which caused Americans to feel uneasy about