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Researching the Salem Witch Project 6:56
1. persecuted
2. thesis statement
3. convulsions
4. witchcraft
5. hysteria
6. fits
7. apparitions
8. spectres
9. crisis
10. frontier
11. collaborators
12. reverend
13. clergy
14. Puritan
15. traitor
16. conspirator
17. manipulating
18. agenda
19. potential
20. fervor
21. fueled
Learn how to get started writing a research paper. See how to develop a plan for writing about a historical subject such as the Salem Witch Trials.
1. How many Salem townspeople in 1692 were either sent to prison or executed?
2. What is a good way to begin writing your report?
3. What should you do if you don’t know much about the topic?
4. What two questions will help you to organize your information?
5. Define what a thesis statement is. What is its purpose?
6. What should you do after you have formed a thesis statement?
7. What did the teenage girls in Salem Massachusetts claim was causing their convulsions and frightening visions?
8. What was happening at the same time between the colonists and the Wabanaki Indians? How did this affect the Salem townspeople’s beliefs?
9. Where did some of the girls having fits come from? Who did they accuse of witchcraft?
10. What reasons was Rev. George Burrows also accused of witchcraft?
11. What happened if the accused admitted to witchcraft?
12. What happened if the accused denied the charges of witchcraft?
13. What political reason was behind these accusations and persecutions?
14. How many people died?
15. What would you need to support a thesis?
16. What might you want to investigate in addition to the supporting details of the Salem Witch Trials?
17. What kind of topics should you investigate?