Causes Of The Salem Witch Trials Dbq

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“Ahhh!”, shreaked two teenage girls as Bridget Bishop shook her head. Two little girls, Betty Harris and Abigail Williams were falling to the floor. Bridget didn’t know anything about what was witchcraft and was being accused. Later, she was hanged, but why? Teenage girls accused older women, little girls drunk with powers, or poor people jealous of the rich? Why were 18 others killed along with her? What caused the Salem Witch Trial hysteria of 1692? One cause of the Salem Witch Trials was that teenaged girls accused to older women of witchcraft. Women between the age of 16-20 accused married women between the age of 41-60(Doc B). This proves that teenage girls accused older women of witchcraft because there were 14 out of 29 accusers that
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