THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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disputes over death penalty
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clashes over cultural values
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protests by temperance leaders
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challenges to search and seizure protections
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The trial and conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti was an example of the hysteria caused by the Red Scare of the 1920s. The Dawes Plan was unique because we paid Germany’s debts to Great Britain and France, and they paid their debts to us with our own money.