Victims
What caused people to be accused of Witchcraft?
Seizures, aggressive behavior, lack of attendance to church
What state did the trials occur in?
Massachusets
How were most of the victims killed?
a. Burned at the Stake
b. hung
c. drowned
d. crushed
b. hung
How did Puritan beliefs affect the trials?
They believed that anything satanic must be killed.
What year did the trials occur in?
1692
How many people died in total?
20
What war caused tension before the Salem Witch Trials?
The French-Indian War
What was their main religious belief?
Puritanism
What was the name of the slave who was the first to be accused?
Tituba
What were the names of the girls who accused the first victims?
a. Florinda and Lucinda
b. Tituba and Bridget
c. Anne and Margaret
d. Abigail and Elizabeth
d. Abigail and Elizabeth
What was the name of the colony that the trials took place in?
True or False?
There were five men total to be tortured.
False, there was only one man to be tortured.
What was the name of the man who judged the accused?
Chief Justice William Stoughton
Who was Salem's pastor at the time?
Samuel Paris