Answer:
George Washington did not sign the Declaration of Independence because in July 1776 he was in New York preparing to defend Manhattan against the British.
Explanation:
I would call this the 'Red Scare' as a phobia against communism or radical politics after WWI probably because the Soviet Union came out of WWI but on the contrary there were a lot of sympathizers to the cause of the Soviet Union and interest in their new experiment of actually trying to implement socialism at least among the Canadian and American working classes and many union members.
I believe it’s D or C I could be wrong though