Asked in Colonial AmericaSalem Witch Trials
Colonial America
Salem Witch Trials
What type of people were targeted during the Salem Witch Hunt?
Answer
Wiki User
July 31, 2011 1:21AM
Salem was a special case in witch hunts. Even now, we can not find a single trait to connect all the accused in Salem. Poor people like Sarah Goode, clergymen like George Burroughs, town matrons like Rebbecca Nurse and so many others were imprisoned on charges of witchcraft. 19, including the three named above, were hanged after conviction.
Related Questions
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
What religion did people practice during the Salem witch trials?
during the Salem witch trials the people practice
puritanism.
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
How many people were hang during the Salem Witch Trials episode?
Nineteen people were hanged during the Salem witch trials.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Who were the first people to be accused during the Salem Witch Trials?
the fist people to be accused during the Salem witch trials were
Tibuta, Sarah good, Sarah osborne.
Asked in History of the United States, Salem Witch Trials
What did people do for recreation during the Salem witch trials?
They would tickle the witch
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Where was all of the people hung during Salem witch trials?
On Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
How many people were killed during that Salem witch trials?
During the Salem Witch Trials in Salem Massachusetts in 1692, 19
were hanged, 1 was pressed to death and as many as 13 died in
prison.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
How many people die during the Salem witch trials?
20 people were hung during the trials.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
How many people were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials?
19 people were hanged in the Salem Witch Trials and 1 (an old
man) was killed by "pressing" because he refused a trial.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
How were people killed during the salem witch trials?
The convicted were executed by hanging.
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
What were the names of the two people who were pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in 1692?
There was only ONE person pressed to death during the Salem
Witch Trials. His name was Giles Corey.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Who is Samuel Parris-Salem witch trial?
He was a puritan prime minster in Salem Village during the Salem
Witch Trials. His family's slave, Tituba, was the first to admit to
being a witch during the trials.
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Who were executed during the Salem Witch Trials?
The Salem witch trials happened during the year 1692, the first
to be executed was Bridget Bishop. In total 19 people were killed
after being found guilty of witch craft, this is not counting the
many people that they suspected died in jail.
Asked in Salem Witch Trials
How many witches were persecuted during the Salem witch hunt?
19 people were executed
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
What year did the Salem witch burnings take place?
No witches were ever burned at Salem. In Puritan society,
witchcraft was a felony and punishable by hanging.
During the Salem Witch Trials, 19 people suffered that fate.
Asked in War and Military History, Salem Witch Trials
Who was involved in the Salem witch trial?
The
Salem witch trials involved Protestant and Catholic
people.
Asked in Salem Witch Trials
What are ways they tortured people in the Salem witch trials?
Torture was not used in the Salem Witch Trials.
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
How was witchcraft practiced during the Salem witch trials?
There were no actual, practicing witches invovled, accused or
otherwise existing in Salem during the witch trials.
Asked in The Crucible (play)
What happened to John Proctor after the Salem Witch Trials?
John Proctor was accused and hanged during the Salem Witch
Trials.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Who was the witch in the Salem witch trials?
Twenty people were executed as witches in the Salem witch
trials, but they were all innocent. There were no actual
witches.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
What was the outcome of the Salem witch trails?
The outcome of the Salem witch trials was the remembrance of a
situation which casts Salem into infamy. A hysteria had gripped the
town, and the people of Salem had senselessly killed a lot of
people.
Asked in Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
What was the place called where the people were taken to be hanged during the Salem witch trial?
They were hung at a gallow.
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Who was the Salem minister during the Salem witch trail?
Salem Village: Samuel Parris
Salem Town: Nicholas Noyes.
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials
Why were women targeted during the Salem witch trials?
women wanted rights and men wanted them to be weak so then
started with bewitchment as a sickness and acused them of
witchcraft and satanous things
Asked in History of the United States, Colonial America, Salem Witch Trials, Torture
What type of torture used for those accused of witch craft in the Salem witch trials?
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem
Witch Trials.
Asked in History of the United States, Salem Witch Trials
How did people from Salem turn themselfs into witch's?
No one in Salem was a witch.