The answer is true but only in court i think
They did it because King George lll hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War.
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The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.
In 1828, a teen aged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace.
B - Slave revolts.
The revolt of Spartacus, which was also the most famous slave uprising in the history of the Roman Empire, lead to questions about the usefulness and effectiveness of the current governmental system in Rome. This, along with other factors, made them plunge into a crisis which ended through the transition to an empire.
