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Why did the salem settlement need a theocracy? why had the settlers begun to turn toward individualism?.

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Why did salem settlement need a theocracy?

•... Puritans chose theocracy to maintain unity in their settlement. Settlers twaord indviualism because the rules of settlement were extrmely strict so they wanted freedom.

Why had the settlers begun to trun toward individualism?

•The settlers began to turn towards individualism because they were seeking freedom. But because they had been other a theocracy for so long, anyone who tried to break the rules were considered as a lawbreaker.

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