Salem

(proper noun)

Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and the site of the New England's famous 17th century Salem Witch Trials.

Related Terms

Examples of Salem in the following topics:

  • The Salem Witch Trials

    • The Salem witch trials of 1692 were the earliest examples of mass hysteria in the country.
    • The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
    • Prior to 1692, there had been rumors of witchcraft in villages neighboring Salem Village and other towns.
    • The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott, one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692-93.
    • Evaluate what the Salem witch trials reveal about the role of religion and the role of women in the colonies

  • The Consumer Revolution

    • 18th century engraving of Shipping Scene in Salem, Massachusetts by Balthasar Leizelt.

  • Witchcraft in New England

    • The most famous witch trials in American history, however, took place from February 1692 to May 1693 in and around coastal settlements near Salem, Massachusetts.
    • This work by Reverend Cotton Mather was written to justify the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s.

  • Women and Democracy

    • The first women's antislavery society was created in 1832 by free black women from Salem, Massachusetts.

  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony

    • The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston.
    • The most notorious cases occurred in Salem Village in 1692.

  • Fighting for Liberty

    • Peter Salem, who had been freed by his owner to join the Framingham militia was one of the blacks in the militia.

  • New Jersey

    • The early settlements in West Jersey were Salem and Burlington.

  • Lexington and Concord

    • In one instance, General Gage seized munitions in Cambridge and Charlestown, but when he arrived to do the same in Salem, his troops were met by a large crowd of minutemen and had to leave empty-handed.

  • Commerce in the New England Colonies

    • After these products had been delivered to port towns such as Boston and Salem in Massachusetts, New Haven in Connecticut, and Newport and Providence in Rhode Island, merchants then exported them to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses, sugar, gold coins, and bills of exchange (credit slips).

  • Early New England Society

    • After these products had been delivered to port towns such as Boston, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Providence, merchants then exported them to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses, sugar, gold coins, and bills of exchange (credit slips).