THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Many Americans saw immigrants and/or radicals as a threat to the American way of life
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The courts in the 1920s were immune to nativist influence.
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African Americans were unable to get a fair trial in the 1920s.
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Unlike Communists, Anarchists were not considered a threat by most Americans.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What did the verdict in the Sacco and Vanzetti case indicate about the state of the US in the early 1920s? a. Many Americans saw immigrants and/or radicals as a threat to the American way of life.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A.
Detailed explanation-3: -The trial judge permitted the prosecution to present extensive evidence about their anarchist ideology, immigrant background, and refusal to register for the military draft during World War I. On July 14, 1921, the jury convicted both men.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.