The Red Scare and McCarthy Trials

What play did Arthur Miller write that served as a parallel between what he was experiencing and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1600s?

• Red Dawn

• The Red Scare

• The Crucible

• The Tempest

The red scare took hold of our nation and was named as such because of the ​ (a)   from the ​ (b)   .

• red flag
• U.S.S.R
• blue flag
• sickle and hammer flag
• Russia
• Ukraine
• China

In 1940, Congress passed this act which required anyone who was not a legal resident of the US to file a statement of their occupation and personal status.

• Alien Registration Act

• Foreign Resident Registration Act

• US Allegiance Act

• Anti-Communist Act

The ​ (a)   , which was established in 1938, had the job of investigating those who were suspected of ​ (b)   the ​ (c)   of the United States.

• House Un-American Activities Committee
• overthrowing
• democracy
• aiding
• helping

The House Un-American Activities Committee believed that communist beliefs were being spread through the.....

• leaflets

• media

• schools

• subway art

The ​ (a)   were actors, directors, and writers who refused to ​ (b)   before the House Un-American Activities Committee claiming their ​ (c)   amendment rights.

• Hollywood Ten
• testify
• fifth
• Hollywood Eleven
• dance
• act
• second

About how many people lost their jobs and careers as a result of being accused of being a communist?

• 100

• 200

• 500

• Hollywood went bankrupt.

​ (a)   claimed to have a list of over 200 carrying members of the communist party.

• Joseph McCarthy
• Arthur Miller
• Allegory
• Joseph Stalin

Reorder the following events from the article from the earliest event listed to the last event

• Arthur Miller writes the Crucible

• Joseph McCarthy claims to have a list of 200 communists

• The House Un-American Activities Committee founded

• The Alien Registration Act

Match the following terms from the article to their definitions

• anti-communist movement and trials of the 1950s

• Arthur Miller

• a story that represents a deeper idea

• Joseph McCarthy

• Author of the Crucible

• McCarthyism

• Republican senator who claimed to have a list of communists in America

• allegory

• the committee employed to investigate anti-american ideas

• House Un-American Activities Committee