[Answer] 2. Which American city boasted a set of cruel witchcraft trials in 1692, where 19 people, mostly women, were hanged and one man was "pressed" to death in a frenzy about supernatural criminality?

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...1. Philadelphia, PA 2. Boston, MA 3. Salem, MA 4. Newark, NJ The Salem witchcraft trials were an infamous episode in colonial history, where a group of young women fell victim to "witchcraft" which caused them to hallucinate and have other bizarre symptoms. A group of mostly elderly women were convicted of the "crimes" and executed before the madness subsided.