Explain the economic and political causes underlying the salem witch trials.

Many Salem village farming families believed that Salem town’s thriving economy made it too individualistic. The Putnam being the large farming family and leaders of the separatist group did not much this individualism for it opposed their communal nature. This led to disagreements between Putnam and residents thus the residents withholding of local taxes leading to low pay of the minister’s salary and firewood.

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  i would that it was because no matter how hard people worked everyone would be paid the same, witch it was a that the russian to rule.

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b. they tried to evict the squatters from the area.

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