Which of the following is not a theory as to the cause of the salem witch trials? a. they were a distraction from failed military ventures against the native americans.
b. the rise of a mercantile elite was causing tensions between social classes in salem.
c. they were a distraction from a large budget deficit that the leaders of salem had recently incurred.
d. the rise of competition between two groups was dividing many citizens in salem.

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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