Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that gripped England in anti-Catholic hysteria between 1678 and 1681 .
Simplified: The Popish Plot was a story made up by Titus Oates that caused people to hate the Catholics in England between 1678 and 1681 .