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Jamestown is significant as the first permanent English settlement in the New World
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These trials began in Salem due to a couple of teenage girls, who claimed that a town witch had cursed them. This stirred up paranoia and hysteria, and in the frenzy to find and execute the witches, an unknown number of innocent people were put to death, despite the fact that there was no real evidence against them.
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This tragic event was the result of accumulating tensions between the Americans and British. On March 5th, a mob threw snowballs and sticks at a group of British soldiers, who responded by firing into the crowd, killing five men.
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