THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Laurel and Hardy
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Rogers and Hammerstein
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The Howard Brothers
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Detailed explanation-1: -As described by critic Edmund Wilson in 1928, “[The Sacco-Vanzetti case] revealed the whole anatomy of American life, with all its classes, professions, and points of view, and all their relations, and it raised almost every fundamental question of our political and social system.
Detailed explanation-2: -The anti-immigrant sentiment in America in the 1920s, exemplified by the case against Sacco and Vanzetti, provides a pertinent reminder of the power of nativism as an establishment faces threatening social changes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their trial aroused intense controversy because it was widely believed that the evidence against the men was flimsy, and that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main physical evidence connecting Sacco and Vanzetti to the crime was the guns in their possession when they were arrested. The prosecutors claimed that Vanzetti’s gun belonged to one of the victims and that Vanzetti had stolen it from him.