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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and the Anti-Communist McCarthy Hearings of 1950 have similar qualities. One was the excess of accusations against people for even slight suspicious behavior. In both cases, people are tried or questioned for their suspicious behavior and in many cases ended up confessing to false charges or accusing others to save themselves. In the Salem Witch Trials, not confessing to an accusation means suffering either a long jail sentence or death. During the McCarthy hearings, people who were suspected of varying degrees of communist loyalties became the subject of aggressive inquiries, which became known as "witch hunts." In both cases a person was either for the court or government or against it, there was no in-between. The cause of the Salem Witch Trials was an unfortunate combination of an ongoing frontier war, economic conditions, congregational strife, teenage boredom, and personal jealousies, which can account for the spiraling accusations, trials, and......

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