Read the last paragraph from the section "The Witchcraft Craze." In January of 1692, Reverend Parris' daughter Elizabeth, age 9, and niece Abigail Williams, age 11, started having "fits." They screamed, threw things, uttered peculiar sounds and
contorted themselves into strange positions. A local doctor blamed forces not of this world. Another girl, Ann Putnam, age 11, experienced similar episodes. On February 29, under pressure from local judges, the girls blamed three women for offlicting them: Tituba, the Parris' Caribbean slave; Sarah Good, a homeless beggar, and Sarah Osborne, a poor ederly
Which of the following ideas is BEST supported by this paragraph?

1. Many in the community did not believe that the girls were truly affected by witchcraft.

2. Children were encouraged to blame those who had little power in the community for their "fits."
3. Only young children were influenced by the fear of witchcraft in the local community
4. Three girls had proof that the three women they accused had caused them to hallucinate.

Children were encouraged to blame those who had little power in the community for their "fits."

Explanation:

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war