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1. Around the time the trials took place there was a huge threat of Indian attacks in Salem. All these attacks were supposedly all the Indians fault because they killed Christians even though the colonists took Indian land, brought diseases, and broke treaties.
2. They feared them so much that they even called them the Devils servants. this idea that all Indians worked for the Devil was started by a man named Cotton Mather.
He also started preaching about Witchcraft and that Satan was in Salem.
3. Eventually three woman were arrested for bewitching the girls they were Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne.
4. During their trial the man who questioned the women only asked questions that would incriminate them not giving them a chance to prove their innocence.
5.The court found Sarah Good guilty and led Sarah Good away for witchcraft. it was only based on this mans opinion even though it was ridiculous.
questions.
1. What did the Indians do that made the colonist see them as Satan's servants?
2. Who started the idea of the devil in Salem?
3. Was the trial of Sarah Good Fair?
4. In your own thoughts tell why it was not fair.
Vocab.
1. Indian. The original people of the Americas.
2. Innocence.Freedom from legal or a specific wrong.
3. Incriminate.To accuse of or present proof of a crime
literary terms.
1. simile. Indians are compared to devilish servants.
2. characterization. Sarah good is described as a young innocent girl.
Outline
This was the start of the blood bath that was about to begin.
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