Essay On Salem Witch Dbq

What if the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was caused by a simple lie? What would you be thinking? There's no way? That's impossible? There have been many ideas of what caused the Salem Witch Trials researched by historians, but most of them are not true, most of them can't be backed. But first we must review some key vocabulary; Hysteria. Hysteria is an outbreak of emotion or fear. The three most logical causes of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 are biased amongst the community, attention for the poor, and acting by the accusing girls/women. The first idea of what caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 is: biased amongst the community. There are a few documents that support this idea, they are: Documents: B,C,D, and E. Going though them in order while only using one: Document B is a great backup for the subject: Biased. In this document, sourced by: "John Demos, "Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of 17 century New England." American Historical review, June, 1970", shows the marital status and age of the accusers and accused. This shows a lot of evidence that the Salem Witch Trials were a lie. As we can see from the document, mostly all the accusers are single women ages, 16-20. While the accused were mostly married, ages 41-60. With this information we can tell that the single women that accused …show more content…
This is a truly tragic time in our history. There really could have been witches, there really could be a devil processing those people. But in reality those women were lying and just wanted attention. The Salem Witch trials could have been from biased against women, or the women wanted attention, and even those accusers were just great actors. With all theses documents backing up the information we found, there is no reason not to think the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was by a simple