McCarthyism
This finally put an end to the McCarthy Trials.
What is the Army-McCarthy Hearings
One type of evidence used in The Salem Witch Trials was this, which relied purely on someone witnessing the accused person’s spirit shape in a dream while the accused person’s physical body was at another location.
What is Spectral Evidence?
The villagers of Salem in 1692 were Puritans, a devoutly _______ group.
What is pious?
This is the term for the growing fear of communism infecting American life and politics.
What is The Red Scare?
This playwright was an outspoken critic of The McCarthy Trials, wrote The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.
Who is Arthur Miller?
One consequence of the McCarthy Trials is this practice, which banned people from working in their fields of expertise.
What is Blacklisting?
This type of evidence made victims respond physically but is not considered physical evidence.
What is touch evidence?
The spread of fear over witchcraft and supernatural entities in Puritan life qualifies as this -- a form of group think.
What is Mass Hysteria?
The practice of accusing, harassing, or persecuting someone for being a supposed communist (or having communist sympathies) is known as this.
What is Red-Baiting?
The author of The Crucible left his first wife and two kids for this famous actress.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
Refusing to participate in the unconstitutional suppression of free speech and baseless accusations without evidence, these actors and writers stood up to HUAC. They were dubbed this.
Who are The Hollywood Ten?
These were the two consequences of being accused.
What is being hanged? What is being jailed if you named someone else?
The death of Kitty Genoves is the most famous example of this.
What is the Bystander Effect?
In recent politics, we often see a conflation of communism with this because they both oppose capitalism and advocate for collective ownership.
What is Socialism?
The author of The Crucible was brought in front of this committee to answer for his "communist ties" and/or "communist sympathies".
What is HUAC -- The House of Un-American Activities Committee.
This person sparked the beginning of the McCarthy trials by doing this.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy? What is claiming there were Communists hiding within the United States government.
This can be seen as one of the functions of The Salem Witch Trials.
To seek personal revenge or to encourage piousness through fear.
Puritans' beliefs ruled their village in Early American life. The governing by religion is know as this.
What is Theocracy?
This famous author first coined the term Cold War.
Who is George Orwell?
The fear of witchcraft, devil worship, and cult belonging did not disappear with the end of The Salem Witch Trials. In the 1980s and 1990s, we saw a resurgence of the mass fear called this. This was also a plot line in the most recent season of Stranger Things.
What is Satanic Panic?
This is the main type of evidence used in The McCarthy Trials.
What are accusations?
In Early America, people feared the woods for these reasons.
What are dangers lurked in the forest: dangerous animals, indigenous tribes defending their ancestral lands, and poisons flora and fauna unfamiliar to the new colonists.
The Bystander Effect and Mass Hysteria have this in common.
What is group think? One results in group action and the other results in group inaction.
This is the period after WWII when tensions were rising between the U.S. and Russian because of their stock-piling of weapons of mass destruction.
What is The Cold War?
Miller wrote The Crucible as this -- an extended metaphor for The McCarthy Trials.
What is an allegory? He did this to show the similar fears, and consequences of acting on those fears without evidence or reason, between the two different periods