Witch Hunts…Post-Salem

Learning Target

• I can relate hysteria in the colonies to hysteria today.

“Pictorial illustration of abolitionism. Its rise, progress and end. Vol. II.”

By Alfred Gale http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe10/rbpe100/10004700/

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• Fear of abolishing slavery• What assertion is this

author making about people who wanted to abolish slavery?

• How does he tie in the Salem Witch Trial accusations?

“Examination of a Witch” T. H. Matteson (1853)

“Stand fast men---they’re armed with marshmallows”

Washington Post, 1954 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html

• Fear of Communism• Gov’t said the Girl

Scouts’ “one world” ideas were un-American.

• What assertion is this author making?

• How does he tie in the Salem Witch Trials?

"Witchcraft in Colonial America: A Matter of Lies

and Death.“Washington Post, KidsPost section, October 31, 2001

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/generic.html

• What fear existed in the U.S. at this time?

• What has been the corresponding hysteria in society?

Wes and Tony.“The Magician.” Comic strip. Amazing Superpowers 22 Nov 2007: Web. <http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2007/11/the-magician/>

The Magician (2007)

What is this author telling us?What does this tell us about hindsight?

Shall we keep talking?

• Why do people get on board with hysteria and mob mentality?

• Why do some people stay silent?• How is fear used to manipulate people?– How was fear used to manipulate people in Salem?

Learning Target

• I can relate hysteria in the colonies to hysteria today.