The origins of McCarthyism lie in a speech given by Joe McCarthy in Wheel West Virginia in 1950. In this speech he claimed to have a list of 207 names of individuals working for the US government that were communist or had ties to the Soviet Union. This claim shook the nation, as it increased a sense of paranoia and fear that the American government may be filled with communists.
C- colonization era Constitution era obviously isnt it Reform era was known as the progressive era the early republic era had to with transfer of govt thus leaving colonization era as the last option
