THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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the rich, powerful
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foreigners, radicals
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African Americans, Chinese laborers
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the poor, homeless
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Detailed explanation-1: -The trial judge permitted the prosecution to present extensive evidence about their anarchist ideology, immigrant background, and refusal to register for the military draft during World War I. On July 14, 1921, the jury convicted both men.
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: -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-4: -In 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted in a trial that was marred by prejudice against Italians, immigrants, and radical beliefs.