One cause that really didn’t cause the salem witch trial would have been the town division. The town division was where the town’s people segregated themselves from each other. In Document E, there is a line of separation and on the east side of that line there are more people begin accused of witchcraft then there is on the west side. More than likely the accusers were trying to bring attention to the introverts. In this situation the introverts would be the witches or the one being accused of …show more content…
This was caused from three big reasons: town division, young girls lying, and jealousy. This salem witch trial took too many live way too soon because of the little girls in particular did not like telling the truth. For example, “... Under pressure, the two girls identified two local white women and the slave Tituba as the witches who were causing them so much pain”(Background Essay). Betty and Abigail went around and accused two white women and a slave of witchcraft without knowing if they were really witches. This massacre became the first of many massacres of