USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The anti-immigrant sentiment in America in the 1920s, exemplified by the case against Sacco and Vanzetti, provides a pertinent reminder of the power of nativism as an establishment faces threatening social changes.

Detailed explanation-2: -About three weeks later, Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime. 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-3: -The Sacco and Vanzetti case suggests how easily justice is perverted by the perception of immigrants as “enemies.” Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was only one luminary arrested in Boston protests in the summer of 1927. Appeals exhausted, Judge Thayer finally imposed the mandatory sentence of death in the spring of 1927.

Detailed explanation-4: -The prosecution presented the following categories of evidence: Eyewitness testimony, ballistics evidence, a cap found near the victims, and the “consciousness of guilt” Sacco and Vanzetti displayed when arrested.