As World War II came to a close in 1945‚ the Communist Party in America was beginning to simmer away. The government was worried that a Communist takeover in America would soon begin. They believed that these far-left ideas would destroy traditional American values. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was founded in 1938. Its original purpose was to find Nazi and Fascist sympathizers in Hollywood. After the war was over‚ the committee began targeting Communists. The government
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Massachusetts held a series of trials regarding the conspiracy of witchcraft. Many fell victim in this case of religious extremism. How did this horrible event begin? What fueled the unfounded fear of witchcraft? What are specific cases of this affair? Is there earlier record of similar occurrences The Salem witch trials were a progression of hearings and arraignments of individuals blamed for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trial brought about the detainment
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what the minority groups of the time were thinking or feeling. In 1692 in Salem‚ Massachusetts the town
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The Salem Witchcraft Trials “The Devil in Salem” by Peggy Robbins addresses the Salem witch trials that occurred in colonial Massachusetts in 1692. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was where it was more likely for people to believe in witchcraft in which it was known to be believed by the people that Satan would take use of human beings to carry on his war against heaven. It has been recorded that in Salem Village in the year of 1692‚ alone 170 witches were imprisoned and 20 were sentenced to death
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families. It threw innocent people into a whirlwind of mass confusion and fictional portrayals of their lives. McCarthyism spawned for the country’s new found terror of Communism known as the red scare. McCarthyism was an extreme version of the red scare‚ a scare whose ends did not justify the means. The Red Scare happened twice in the history of this great country. When the communist took over Russia in 1919‚ the American people were unnerved. They were afraid of a communist take over in the states
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The Salem witch trials scared many people during its time. During this time people accused each other of being witches. Many of the accused were killed because they would not admit to being a witch. The causes of the Salem witch trials were town division‚ lying girls‚ and jealousy. Town division helped spark the horrible events of the Salem witch trials. The town could be divided by race‚ social status‚ or wealth. Document E shows us that the accusers are on one side of the town and the accused
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arrested without warrants because of some imaginary “worldwide communist conspiracy.” The Palmer Raids were parts of the Red Scare. In 1919 and 1920‚ led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer‚ federal agents “raided the office of radical and labor organizations throughout the country.” (4) The main targets of these acts were socialists and immigrant labor organizations. The Red Scare ended quickly as Palmer took criticism from Congress and public‚ however‚ the damage to the labor unions was repairable
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The KKK dominated the South and those who did not fit in found that they were facing the full force of the law. Those who supported un-American political beliefs‚ such as communism‚ were suspects for all sorts of misdemeanors. The so-called "Red Scare" refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920’s. It is said that there were over 150‚000 anarchists or communists in USA in 1920 alone and this represented only 0.1% of the overall population of the USA. However many Americans were
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for the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Mather wrote‚ “Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft Trials” in 1693. During one of the trials‚ Susanna (North) Martin was accused of witchcraft. Martin was born in Olney‚ Buckinghamshire‚ England on September 30‚ 1621‚ were she was baptized. Her family first moved to Salisbury‚ Massachusetts in 1639‚ where she married George Martin. On June 29‚ 1692 Martin had a trial at the Court of Oyer and Terminer‚ Held by Adjournment at Salem. The Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft
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the war between the Soviet Union and America continued throughout the 1940’s and early 1950’s‚ panic over the alleged threat of communism began to take over America and later became known as the Red Scare‚ since the Soviet Union was known as the reds for their allegiance to the Soviet flag. The Red Scare would have brought about a chain of events that would significantly influence the US government and society. Three major events in 1948 and 1949 brought the American fear of Communism to a fever
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