D. He uses the title of the poem throughout the song.
I think the underlying cause was, the towns people didnt know why all the women where acting strangely (almost as if they were possessed) so they went to the one thing they trusted in most which was Religion and they assumed that the women were possessed and were Witches.
It would have been easy since there were no documents (I think) and most evidence was hear say.
Prior to the beginning of the civil war, citizens from the south supported Stephen Douglas. However, the Lincoln Douglas debates caused a drastic split in the Democratic Party.
