Salem Witch Trial Research Paper

Have you ever read the Salem Witch Trial? The Salem Witch Trial is based on a

witchcraft story that took place in 1692. It occurred when 3 women were accused of

being witches, later on in the story they accused more and more people.

The Salem Witch Trial took place in 1692 it was based on witchcraft (miller,). It

had all started with a group of girls (miller,). They were dancing in the woods and

worshipping the devil (miller,). Later on people were accused for no reason (miller,).

Also seven innocent people died (miller,). In 1697, the Massachusetts court declared a

day of fasting. More than 150 men and women were accused of being a witch

(history.com,). This damaged the town in several ways (history.com,). In September of

1692, the hysteria began to abate the public

opinion towards the witch trials

(history.com,).

It had spread; there were three that were accused and brought before magistrates

(history.com,). The three were seeking to save themselves by conviction in otherwise by

saying they were witches (history.com,).

The three women said that they had been

making deals with the devil in the woods (history.com,). Although the trial had continued

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more men and women were being accused of being a witch (history.com,). Therefore it

cost them to be hung (history.com,).

After the day of the fasting, the court had declared the trials to become unlawful

(history.com,). The trials of the Salem Witch had continued until 1693(history.com,).

From there on out most of the people who were accused had become hardened and were

later released from there witchcraft charges (history.com,). In 1688, John Putman was

an influential man in Salem (history.com,). He had moved to Salem with a wife,

daughter, and slave named Tituba (history.com,).

In the winter of 1692, a girl named Betty Paris had become very ill and no one

knew how she had become ill (history.com,). At the time the talk of witchcraft had

increased and some of the children started having similar symptoms to Betty Paris

(history.com,). On the other hand, some believe that the girls had turned themselves to

the devil and they would do stuff the devil asked them to (history.com,). People

believe

that Tituba was the one over the whole ordeal because she had baked a rye cake with pee

in it (history.com,).

Most people believe that the rye cake with pee in it was an act of voodoo

(history.com,). On February 29 th , the court had sent out arrest warrants for Tituba, Betty

Paris, and Abigail Williams (history.com,). The three women were later accused of

witchcraft. In 1692, March 1 st , is when a bunch of people showed up for examinations

(history.com,). Soon some villagers came forward to accuse many of their friends and

family to be witches because they could not have what they had (Salem witch trials,). On

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the other hand, most the people that were accused did not have anything to do with

witchcraft (Salem witch trials,).

Later on, Tituba confessed to doing voodoo in the woods that night when they

were caught. Twenty-four were accused of being witches in the Salem Witch Trials

(Salem witch trials,). One was pressed to death and later four more died in prison (Salem

witch trials,). In1693, the wife of the governor was accused of witchcraft which ended

the trials (Salem witch trials,).

On the other hand, there is a lot of evidence of hostility when it comes to Jews

(history.com staff,). People think that they were selfish, in ways the Jews were kind of

like the people from Salem, they always needed something and stuff like that

(history.com staff,). The Jews were treated bad just like the people of Salem

(history.com staff,).

When Adolf Hitler decided to have a master race, he wanted to get rid of all the

Jews so he sent them to concentrations camps (history.com staff,) The Salem witches

and Jews were just alike because they were always accused of stupid stuff (history.com

staff,). So Hitler made all the Jews go to camps, most of the Jews that went to camps

died or were burned to death in gas ovens (history.com staff,).

For my conclusion, I concluded that the Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust are

similar but different in many way because in the Salem Witch Trials they hung people for

saying that they weren’t witches, but on the other hand in the Holocaust Hitler killed

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many Jews because he wanted master race, also he killed almost 6 millions Jews. Another

way Hitler killed the Jews were in gas chambers.