The Salem Witch Trials
Target
List and describe the causes and effects of the Salem Witchcraft trials.
The Salem Witch Trials
Causes
Social class issues
Attention for the accusers
Mass hysteria
Religious beliefs
Effects
19 dead (hanged)
4 died in jail
150 were put in prison
Effects cont’
People began questioning the existence of witches
Changed the way they looked at the world
This led to Enlightenment
Enlightenment
Use of scientific reasoning and logic to discover natural laws
The world is not run by miracles or magic, but fixed mathematical laws
Thomas Jefferson- used reason
to justify natural laws
Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment
The Great Awakening
Religious revival of the strict Puritan code
Jonathan Edwards
“People must feel their sinfulness”
Others traveled from village to village preaching
Effects Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, though opposite,
both caused people to question traditional authority.
As a result, people would begin to question the traditional authority of Britain
No talk of Independence…yet
The French and Indian War