USA HISTORY

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: -The trial and proceedings leading up to their executions is famous in United States history because of the significance it held in revealing the judicial process as xenophobic.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The main physical evidence connecting Sacco and Vanzetti to the crime was the guns in their possession when they were arrested. The prosecutors claimed that Vanzetti’s gun belonged to one of the victims and that Vanzetti had stolen it from him.