Are witches real or was it all hysteria? Hysteria can spread like wildfires and grow out of proportion. That is true for the instances of The Salem Witch Trials in 1692 and McCarthyism in the 1950’s. The Salem Witch Trials took place during the year 1692. The young girls of Salem were seen in the woods dancing around a fire with Tituba, Rev. Parris’s slave that practiced witchcraft as her religion. The next morning Parris’s daughter Betty was found in a coma like state, inert in her bed. Parris
Strange behavior from young girls in the town of Salem, Massachusetts led to a travesty that changed history. The events that occurred in 1692 led to wrongful arrests and even executions after accusations spread of people practicing witchcraft. A combination of many things including pure adolescent boredom led to the Salem Witch Trials. Salem consisted of Puritan people who believed that a few young girls in their town had become bewitched (“Puritan Life”). The motivation of the girls is questionable
In the late 1940's there was a rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Russia also known as the cold war. As the war intensified the U.S. began to analyze and determine whether citizens were loyal to their country. This was called the Red Scare. The U.S. were scared of communist because of their alliance to the red soviet flag. Communism is an economic system in which everyone is equal and the government owns everything. Of course people disagree. Joseph McCarthy a former American politician who served