In Search of History: Salem Witch Trials Video Worksheet

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  1. The other countries that had been engaging in witch trials for the past 300 years were France, Italy, ______, and ______.
  2. The English used the Bible verse Exodus 22:18 to justify their persecution of witches. This verse said: “Thou shalt not suffer a ______to live.”
  3. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII declared witchcraft a ______, the punishment for which was death.
  4. Witch-hunts were mostly carried out by ______.
  5. A book called the Malleus Maleficarum helped people find witches. The book recommended looking for the devil’s mark, also known as a ______.
  6. Other methods of discovering a witch were the practice of ______a witch, and also ______, which was used to get a confession from a witch.
  7. ______was justified because witchcraft was an act of ______, a crime against the ______and the state.
  8. In 1629, King Charles I granted the ______a charter, which allowed them to settle their own colony in the New World.
  9. The first ______was in 1648, and resulted in the hanging of midwife and healer Margaret Jones.
  10. The acceptance of misogyny in Puritan culture meant that women were supposed to be ______to their husbands. It also meant that women were considered likely to be ______, and therefore more likely to enter into a contract with ______.
  11. 1n 1692, the most famous of the witch trials began, that of Salem Village. There were a total of ______cases, but no ______of the trials.
  12. Everyone believes that the witch-hunt started because Tituba, a ______of the Reverend Parris, started telling stories about her childhood, and also stories about ______to the Reverend’s young daughter and her friends.
  13. The girls started acting very strangely. They would ______, ______, and ______.
  14. Puritans believed the doctor’s diagnosis of ______the ______of ______very readily.
  15. After accusing Tituba, the girls accused ______, the town ______.
  16. Next to be accused was ______, an old and bed-ridden woman who didn’t ______.
  17. The main evidence used against the women was ______, which meant that the accused appeared to the people being tormented in the form of a ______. This evidence was evident only to the person ______the ______.
  18. This evidence, in the case of Sarah Goode, turned out to be ______.
  19. Tituba says there are ______names in the devil’s book.
  20. The first accused women had been of ______; those who followed were ______members of the community.
  21. Rebecca Nurse was an ______, ______woman.
  22. Anyone who spoke out ______the proceedings was immediately ______.
  23. The biggest strike against Bridgette Bishop was that she had been ______of ______in the past.
  24. Ironically, a ______of ______was the one sure way to survive the trials.
  25. ______of the approximately 200 accused took this way out.
  26. On July 9, 1692, 5 women, including ______were hanged.
  27. On August 9, five more people were put to death on ______.
  28. George Burrows recited the ______beginning to end; witches were supposed to be unable to say the prayer properly.
  29. On September 22, another ______people were hanged.
  30. More than 200 people were accused, and 24 died; 19 were ______, four died in ______, and one man, ______, was ______to death.
  31. Those who died as witches did not have their ______recorded in the published ______records of the period.
  32. The girls started to accuse men, ______, ______of the community, and ______. Once that happened, there was real resistance to their ______.
  33. ______years passed before the Salem community began to realize its grievous mistake.
  34. It wasn’t until the year ______that all accused witches were finally cleared of the charges against them.