Monday, December 19, 2011

The Salem witch trials were probably motivated by all of these except...

A. lust for neighbor's land
B. fear of Indian attacks
C. religious superstition
D. jealousy and meanness

8 comments:

  1. fear of attacks...do not remember reading anything about that

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  2. B. fear of Indian attacks

    Don't remember this being mentioned at all...

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  3. Actually, they were very greedy people who sought more and more land. This is witnessed by pushing the Native Americans off of their land, yes. Many of the authority figures had greedy motives in the SWT; therefore, it makes sense that the answer is A.

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