Which of the following is not true of salem, massachusetts?
a.) in 1692, a witchcraft hysteria consumed salem, resulting in the deaths of 20 people.
b.) one of nathaniel hawthorne's ancestors was a judge in salem.
c.) salem is the setting of "young goodman brown" and other hawthorne stories.
d.) the puritans in salem upheld freedom of religion.

D is the correct answer.

Explanation:

The Salem trials were a series of hearings and persecutions. In this people who were accused of witchcraft were accused of colonial Massachusetts. More than 200 people were executed by crushing and hanging, many died in jail. It was one of the deadliest witch hunts in the history of the US. It was one of the most notorious examples of mass hysteria.

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