Name:
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
Answer the following questions while watching the video.
1. When did the Salem Witch Trials begin?
2. What book of the Bible warns against witchcraft?
3. Who instituted an inquisition against heresy?
4. Who declared witchcraft a heresy?
5. What was considered a sure sign of witchcraft?
6. What is swimming a witch?
7. How would the law gain a confession?
8. In 1629, King Charles I of England gave whom a charter?
9. Where and when was the first witch trial?
10.
What happened to the first person accused?
11.
What happened to the Puritans in 1684?
12.
What did the Puritans believe?
13.
Who were the three women accused of witchcraft?
14.
What was spectral evidence?
15.
Who was the youngest person accused of witchcraft?
16.
Who was the first victim of the witch trials?
17.
What happened to her?
18.
What was a “sure” way of survival?
19.
What does Burroughs recite before dying?
20.
Over the next ___________ months, ____________ people
were accused of witchcraft.
21.
How did the accused die?
22.
Who is the only accuser to apologize?
23.
As a result of the Salem Witch Trials, what was the
impact on the justice system?
24.
State the two theories used to explain what really
happened in Salem.
a.
b.