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Evaluate the Extent to Which Anxieties About Unsettled New England

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Evaluate the extent to which anxieties about unsettled New England political, economic, social, and religious conditions and anxieties about the social status of the accusers and the accused contributed to the witchcraft persecutions in Salem during the early 1690s. Assess the role you believe that the anxieties, prejudices, and superstitions of Puritan men played in the Salem witchcraft persecutions?


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