Although the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism isn’t know to have any common relationship, you’d be surprise how much similarities the two events have in common. If not known, McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard or evidence. The Salem Witch Trials was a time in Massachusetts where more than two-hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft and twenty people were executed. Both these events took place in the U.S although it was in two different time periods in our History. McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials both didn’t provide evidence just suspicion by enemies, no real proof of witchcraft or communism. So if someone was to point fingers at you, then you would’ve been
