McCarthyism-1 by Ms. Leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8 The inspiration for The Crucible en-us 2016-10-25 11:27:33 UTC 2025-12-06 22:09:16 UTC hello@padlet.com SOCIAL CLIMATE sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957482 2016-10-25 11:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957482 CULTURAL BELIEFS sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957512 2016-10-25 11:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957512 CULTURAL FEARS sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957519 2016-10-25 11:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957519 EXPERTS sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957533 2016-10-25 11:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957533 TRIAL PROCEEDINGS sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957545 2016-10-25 11:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957545 VICTIMS AND THEIR TREATMENT sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957558 2016-10-25 11:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132957558 People all across America were accusing each other of communism. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132969746 -SM]]> 2016-10-25 12:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132969746 People were anxious of communists infiltarting the country. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970390 -JT, CC]]> 2016-10-25 12:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970390 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970447 -Committee on UN-American Activities
-State and Local ¨Anti- Subversive" Committees
-SM ]]> 2016-10-25 12:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970447 Communists were about to take over his countrys government https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970603 -KB, MM]]> 2016-10-25 12:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970603 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970616 American citizens were paranoid of eachother.

-ST]]> 2016-10-25 12:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970616 "Hollywood ten" were accused and it ended their careers https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970663 -JR]]> 2016-10-25 12:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132970663 Communism was going to take over the country and end Democracy https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971049 -JR]]> 2016-10-25 12:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971049 The victims were accused of Communism they would be jailed or put to death, Many accused would also lose jobs. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971269 -CC, JT]]> 2016-10-25 12:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971269 In the end, 18 strikers were killed, and steel workers' union won none of its demands https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971366 -KB, MM]]> 2016-10-25 12:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971366 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971401 If an artist was convicted of possible sympathy or membership to the Communist party they were barred from work

-ST]]> 2016-10-25 12:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971401 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971694 The government allowed evidence to be collected against people, even if the evidence is not solid.
-SM]]> 2016-10-25 12:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971694 No one was safe from accusation, if they were found "guilty" of communism they could serve jail time or other punishment. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971757 -JT, CC]]> 2016-10-25 12:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971757 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971925 The FBI investigated federal employees for signs of disloyalty because of concerns of communist infiltration of the government.

-ST]]> 2016-10-25 12:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132971925 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972124 being accused caused a decade long blacklist
-J]]> 2016-10-25 12:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972124 The people of the United States believed that their were communists in their country and that they were surrounded by them. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972220 -CC, JT]]> 2016-10-25 12:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972220 Many poeple began to fear that a communist revolution like the one in russia was brewing in the counrty https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972242 -KB, MM]]> 2016-10-25 12:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972242 Major strike of 1919 were portrayed in the press as anti-american actions that threatened the united states government https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972595 -KB, MM]]> 2016-10-25 12:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972595 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972857 The government used methods of accusing and persecuting innocent people in order to find communists.
-SM]]> 2016-10-25 12:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972857 Many were innocent and falsely accused of communism. Hundreds of innocent people were accused and served jail time because of court jurisdictions. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972965
-JT, CC

]]> 2016-10-25 12:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132972965 Joseph McCarthy, who claimed to have a list of 200 Communists https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973212 -JR,TP]]> 2016-10-25 12:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973212 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973339 Even thought most of the prisoners eventually were released because they had nothing to do with radical politics, the Washington post proclaimed that this was no time to waste on hair splitting over infringement of liberty.
-KB,MM]]> 2016-10-25 12:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973339 Suspects were convicted and most likely executed https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973465 -ST]]> 2016-10-25 12:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973465 https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973596 People thought that it was okay for the government to question and punish people that they thought were guilty.
-SM]]> 2016-10-25 12:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132973596 <u>U.S. citizens fear that USSR could bomb the country with neuclear weapons.</u> https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132975847
-JR, CC

]]> 2016-10-25 12:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132975847 600 radicals were expelled from the country before the department of labor, in charge of aliens, halted the deportations. https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132975989 -KB,MM]]> 2016-10-25 12:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132975989 sm_leiderman https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132978428 Russia began testing their atomic bomb which made the US fearful]]> 2016-10-25 12:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_leiderman/cud2vpyv6zt8/wish/132978428