THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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Question
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Treason
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Anarchy
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Robbery
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Murder
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Robbery and Murder
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sacco and Vanzetti did not receive a fair trial. Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair just after midnight on August 23, 1927. Investigations in the aftermath of the executions continued throughout the 1930s and ‘40s. The publication of the men’s letters, containing eloquent professions of innocence, intensified belief in their wrongful execution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The trial lasted nearly seven weeks, and on July 14, 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty of murder in the first degree.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sacco and Vanzetti, in full Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, U.S. (1921–27), that resulted in their executions.