Salem+Witchcraft


 * Salem Witchcraft**

Analyze the forces responsible for the Salem Village witchcraft crisis. Why did people believe the accusations? Are there other examples of witch-hunt hysteria in American history?

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 * Salem Witch Trials Wikipedia article for general reference.**

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 * History Now Salem Witchcraft (Mary Beth Norton)**

[|Salem Witchcraft (LOC) Today in History March 1]
 * Salem Witchcraft (Library of Congress) Today in History** March 1

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 * Salem Documentary Archive**

Read the "Overview"

Images. Check out two of them.

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 * Famous Trials: Salem Witchcraft**

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Read "An Account of Events in Salem."

Scan through the material in "History of Witchcraft Persecutions"

Read each section under "Teaching Tools": Causes; Why It Ended; Lessons

Go to Biographies: Read those of Samuel Parris, Tituba, and Sarah Good

Go to Examinations and Evidence: read some of Tituba and Sarah Good

Go to "You're Accused" and work through the game.

We will spent some time at the end of the class period working with the JEOPARDY section!