In Search of History: The Salem Witch Trials Guided Notes – Flashcards
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1692- Salem Massachusetts
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People were accused of casting spells and talking to the devil
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In the Bible the book of Exodus says
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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live
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The Pope
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Made attitudes towards witchcraft more violent
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Witch hunts
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were a convenient and powerful tool to get rid of imagined or real enemies and authorities did very little to stop these hunts; encouraged people to turn their neightbors in and be afraid of eachother
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Concreate Evidence
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this was still needed once someone was accused of being a witch
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When thrown in water
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a witch would float while an innocent person would sink
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Torture
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was used to get a confession
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Puritans in Massachusetts
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came to the new world to create a new perfect society based on the Bible- a theocracy with no separation between Church and State (considered Act of Treason)
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Witchcraft
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Central to the Puritans' beliefs- Satan was very real to them
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1692
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Salem was particularly vulnerable to a witch hunt because ti was considered a "wilderness settlement"
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Puritans had to search ofr
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clues in tehir lives about whether they were predestined for heaven or hell (anxiety at the core of the Puritan religion
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Witches
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were considered more likely to be women since they were suppost to be submissive
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Samual Parris (Reverend)
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Events belived to have started in the kitchen of
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Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams left in the care of
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Tituba (slave brought from Curribean, Barbados)
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Tituba
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told stories about home in Barbados; demonstrated voodoo tricks
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Girls began to act strangly
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When the word of God was spoken they covered their ears and screamed; transe experienses; felt like throwing themselves into the fire; felt prickles/ stabbes like knifes; threw fits- no physical explination, diagnoses= witchcraft
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Accused
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Sarah Good (Town Begger), Sarah Osborne (Married an indentured survent), Tituba
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Specter Evidence
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person spirt attacks you
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Addmited to being a witch
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Tituba; said she signed the devils book in blood
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Rebecca Nurse
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arrested ; reflected a pronounced split in Salem; sticking up for her (higher status) accused (farmers/lower class)
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Total Arrested
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more than 100
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People that lost their lives
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24
