Question

(MC)This chart shows key provisions of legislation passed by Congress during a labor crisis in 1947: {{A rectangular chart lists four points of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. They are, Prohibited certain types of strikes; Outlawed closed shops, where only members of a union can be hired; Blocked union donations to political campaigns; and Required union officials to sign non-communist pledges}}} The passage of this act contributed to the development of which of the following?
McCarthyism
industrialization
the union movement
the Civil Rights movement

Answer 1

The passage of the Thaft-Hartley Act of 1947 contributed to the deelopment of McCarthyism.

The Thaft-Hartley Act was passed during the period known as the Second Red Scare (from the late 1940s through the 1950s). The passage of the bill can be interpreted as the business lobby response to the growing labor power and an attempt to desmolibilze the unions, socialist ideas and limiting their political power.

Also, the fear of communist ideas spreading in America and their power infiltraing the labor unions with political interests contributed to the requirement to sign non-communist pledges. According to these pledges, they stated that they didn't have any relationship with the Communist Party or any organization seeking the "overthrow of the United States government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional means"

With the growing tensions of the Cold War in the following years led to the more radical prosecution of communist people an ideas and the period known as McCarthyism (1950-1956).