THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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The government was controlled by radicals with radical agendas
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The government showed those who committed crimes no mercy
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The government was distrusting of people who were not born in the United States
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The government was attempting to regain the trust of its citizens by executing criminals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists, believing that social justice would come only through the destruction of governments. In the early 1920s, mainstream America developed a fear of communism and radical politics that resulted in an anti-communist, anti-immigrant hysteria.
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 Sacco and Vanzetti trial reflected our fears of immigration, immigrant crime, and anarchy. There was also an anti-Italian sentiment in the trail and conviction felt by many Americans throughout the country because of organized crime.
Detailed explanation-4: -Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder on August 23, 1927. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his guard.