Salem Witch Trials Webquest: Part 1

1. I feel that you have to get more proof from the accused that just listen to some girls that have already lied before. There could have been another person doing all these things, but if they think you're a witch, they kind of set you up in order to put you in jail and be hung. Not everyone is a witch, but if you do the slightest thing to make them think you are, they'll trial you and automatically think you're a witch. I don't think it's right that they just put people in jail that they THINK is a witch. All they need is more proof.

2.  I think that the Crucible was a little exaggerated to make is sound more interesting. There was more girls afflicted in the Crucible, and the more girls there were, the more proof it gave. But in the real one, there were only a few girls.

3. I think the rye may have been the cause of some, but not all. Maybe there really were witches doing things to some of those girls. But when those girls ate the rye, they thought it was a witch and played it off as if they were being tortured by a witch.

4. They both have to deal with controlling people.

5. The Red Scare has more to do with communists and controlling people. The Salem Witch Trials deals with witch encounters and putting innocent people in jail because they're scared.

6. The Salem Witch Trials wasn't focused on racism like the others. It just focused on getting innocent people put in jail because since they didn't know who was a witch, they thought everyone was.

7. He is saying that if you don't have the knowledge learned from history, you'll never understand why is happened and you will probably go through the same thing and never know the background or the cause.

8. No

9. I learned that people go trialed as a witch as if they were one because everyone, at that time, was scared that everyone was a witch because one person had an encounter with it and now a bunch of girls were saying that they were having the same torturous encounter with a witch as well.