23-24 Salem Witch Trials

What was the only way someone could survive if he or she was accused of being a witch?

• Confess to being a witch
• Zap people with witch powers
• Run away from the village
• There was nothing they could do

Why were the trials finally stopped?

• The governor of Massachusetts' wife was accused of being a witch.
• They ran out of witches to hang
• The Devil gave up and left town
• The Puritans got bored and moved on

How did land disputes contribute to tension in Salem?

• merchants and farmers fought over land and accused one of being involved with the devil to resolve argument
• Cotton Mather
• conducted by supersticious villagers to get rid of enemies
• Reverand Samuel Paris's kitchen

How do you prove someone was a witch?

• the devil's teet, piercing the mark, swimming a witch
• told tales of magic and horror. demonstrated voodoo tricks
• merchants and farmers fought over land and accused one of being involved with the devil to resolve argument
• silent, submissive to husband, mother to children

Who was the Magistrate in charge of the trial?

• John Hathhorn
• told tales of magic and horror. demonstrated voodoo tricks
• Predestination
• Puritans

How were women expected to act in 1692?

• silent, submissive to husband, mother to children
• innocent until proven guilty
• the Lord's prayer from beginning to end
• Cotton Mather

Puritans believed that __________were real and were in league with (or helped) the devil corrupt the world.

• witches
• fairies
• gnomes
• spirits

One piece of evidence allowed in the Salem Witch Trials was that of dreams and visions of "ghosts" tormenting the girls. This type of evidence is called:

• spectral evidence
• illusionary manifestation
• aural substantiation
• phantom demonstration

Puritans followed a strict code of ethics, that consisted of no leisure time, to live a simple life, and God comes before everything.

• True
• False
• Don't pick me
• Don't pick me

Witch hunt' means...

• A search for an subsequent persecution of a supposed witch
• A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views
• the devil's teet, piercing the mark, swimming a witch
• A term that was overused by the Puritans