The Salem Witch Trials was a roughly year-long period of mass hysteria. Incensed by the idea witches were among them, townsfolk turned on each other, killing 20 of their own neighbors.
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**Think Further Questions
1. Why do you think the adults in Salem sided with the children who accused people of witchcraft?
2. What do you think divides people most these days? Race? Gender? Politics? Or something else?
3. Identify a moment in history or your own life in which someone had a personal bias against someone else because they were different.
**Contents
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Explanation
00:43 - Salem Witch Trials
00:51 - The History
03:26 - Why Care?
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