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People who did not want to answer the questions from the Committee was indicted for contempt of Congress and were sent to prison. Some other people were put on a blacklist in the workplace and lost their jobs and found very difficult to find other company that hires them.
Many members of society considered that that represented such a "wich hunt," that only ruined people's reputation and limited their freedom of speech.
New York was ruled by a governor and an elected assembly. The governor was appointed by the Monarch from England while the proprietors that owned all the land and also had an influence in the government, got to elect the assembly members
All are tied up to a revolution that provided the lower class people new grounds to stand on. In the mist of the revolutions a sense of national pride is common place.
