The Crucible Historical Context

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

• Feudalism

• Communism

• Theocracy

• Autocracy

The practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.

• Condemnation

• Hooverism

• McCarthyism

• Unitary

This took place during the late 1910’s and early 1920’s

• The First Red Scare

• The Second Red Scare

A series of raids conducted in during the First Red Scare by the United States Department to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants and deport them from the United States.

• Price's Raid

• Fenian Raids

• Operation Flipper

• Palmer Raids

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

• An Army veteran who was elected president of the United States from 1949-1953.

• Former governor of Wyoming who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1949.

• A Marine Corps veteran of World War II who was elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 1946.

After WWII what were United States citizens worried about?

• The Russian Revolution of 1917

• That communists might try to subvert schools, labor unions, and other institutions.

• That China was stepping away from communism.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing. What was this called?

• The Scarlet Panic

• The Red Scare

• The Palmer Raids

The author of The Crucible.

• Arthur Miller

• George Orwell

• Richard Wright

• Taylor Caldwell

The Committee that began to subpoena screenwriters, directors, and other movie industry professionals to testify about their known or suspected membership in the Communist Party.

• RTLU

• CAUH

• ULTR

• HUAC

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

held ______________ hearings.

• private

• highly publicized