THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S
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responsible for setting off bombs that damaged A. Mitchell Palmer’s home.
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Communist agitators who helped organize strikes.
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subversives trying to overthrow the government.
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immigrants with radical beliefs during the Red Scare.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Three weeks later, Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime. Many Americans found the evidence against the men flimsy and believed that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs.
Detailed explanation-2: -As anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti had opposed the war. They had gone to Mexico in 1917 to avoid registering for the draft. When they came back to Massachusetts, they were caught up in the Red Scare. Many of their friends and fellow anarchists had already been arrested and were being deported.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.