USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The trial and conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti was an example of the hysteria caused by the ____ of the 1920’s
A
Black Death
B
Ku Klux Klan
C
Anti-Semitism
D
Red Scare
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The overall atmosphere created by the Red Scare excluded any possibility of a fair trial for the accused. Prejudice pervaded the courtroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, from the presiding judge to the district attorney, the police, and the jury.

Detailed explanation-3: -Causes of the Red Scare The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led many to fear that immigrants, particularly from Russia, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, intended to overthrow the United States government; The end of World War I, which caused production needs to decline and unemployment to rise.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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