Arthur Miller

McCarthyism HUAC

Red scare Blacklisting 

Communism

Puritanism

Salem Witch Trials

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From 1950-1954 “McCarthyism” described the practice of accusing Federal Government employees of having affiliations with communism and leaking information.

The blacklists involved thepractice of denying employment to entertainment industry professionalsbelieved to be or to have been Communists or sympathizers.

political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Puritanism, areligious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuriesthat sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery”

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.