proud of their democratic domain. This fear came about after World War One‚ and came to be known as the Red Scare. Right wing government officials used this paranoia in order to prosecute thousands of left wing activists. This ordeal reemerged after World War Two had ended‚ the Second Red Scare had started. A leading politician of the prosecution of many leftist during the Second Red Scare was senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy fed off of the paranoia that struck America‚ and accused many of his
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why this subject was chosen was because I have study the Salem witch trials back in high school‚ so I already knew something about the subject matter. The theme that connects both “Insufficiency of Evidence Against Witches” and “Wonder of the Invisible World” is that both Increase and Cotton Mather were both puritan ministers that participated in the Salem witch trials. In addition‚ both father and son had different views on how the trials should be handled. The author of “Insufficiency of Evidence
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The Red Scare was a time shortly after the end of World War I when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia occurred. The United States had a fear of communists‚ socialists‚ anarchists‚ and other radical groups following the series of bombings in 1919. Many innocent people were jailed for expressing their views‚ civil liberties were ignored‚ and many Americans feared that a communist government would take over. During World War I‚ patriotism was prevalent in the United States due to the propaganda being
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The Salem Witchcraft Trials and The Nuremberg Trials are two alike yet very different trials. The Salem Witchcraft Trials is about the trials of people who were accused to be witches. The Nuremberg Trials is about the trials of the men charge of the Nazi Germany army and the killing of inconcent men‚ women and children. The two trials are alike because they both have to do protecting the public and doing good for the public. They are diffrent because Salem Witchcraft Trials Trials is about witches
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The Salem witch hunt was a wave of paranoia and ignorance and caused hundreds of innocent people to die. This started in in the spring of 1692 and did not end until September in 1962 because people really stared to doubt the truthfulness of the trials. The first convicted witch was a woman by the name of Bridget bishop. This was a large impact on history and even had many books such as the crucible and many others. The other main cause is that back in this time most people did not understand things
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people being accused of being communist spies and then having to go through trials were the person would often lose their jobs‚ lose their trust of the community and being arrested‚ without any solid evidence. Well that was an event that occurred to the people living in the 1940’s through 1950’s‚ this was called the Communist Red Scare. Bobbie Ann Mason the author makes the characters in the story be affected by Red Scare to a point that the main character blamed the communist for her mother’s miss
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The Salem Witch Trials were massive chains of blame which pointed out the unique citizens of a society and accused them of witch craft. Tituba‚ from The Crucible‚ was in the same situation. She‚ being foreign (especially from a place such as Barbados)‚ non-puritan‚ and a slave made her the perfect candidate for such accusations. With England breathing down their necks from one direction and Indian attacks from the other‚ suspicion of traitors in their own community was on the rise. The English people
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did not see coming was the popularity that would follow communism in the future. The fear did not come from the Communist Party itself‚ but the obsession of a small group of people with power to stop the Red Scare that spread rapidly in the America in both the early 1900’s and 1940’s. Red Scare is the term given to the spread of communism that infiltrated the US government. But communists in America were the strange new kids on the block that nobody thought was going to gain popularity in the political
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Historical Hysterias The Salem Witchcraft trials are notoriously known in history for its mass hysteria and paranoia within colonial Massachusetts during the 17th century. This paper will identify social and religious factors contributing to the Salem with-hunt‚ provide insight to who was behind it and why‚ and compare and contrast other examples of mass hysteria with that of the Salem witch-hunt. In colonial Massachusetts‚ the Puritan religion touched every aspect of line in the community. The
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Language and Composition 10 December 2012 “Witch Hunt” Expository Essay A witch-hunt is not limited to one particular event in history. Many key events throughout time relate very closely to these acts of misunderstanding and unjustified killings. For instance‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller was written to portray the Salem Witch Trials in a fictional view although based on true events. Miller in fact based this play after Joseph McCarthy’s Red scare as a fictional foreshadow to more modern times
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