WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
RISE OF NATIVISM
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racial prejudice against African Americans
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opposition to the Ku Klux Klan
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the fear that American values were threatened by radical ideas
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the need to strengthen national defense
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sacco and Vanzetti trial reflected our fears of immigration, immigrant crime, and anarchy. There was also an anti-Italian sentiment in the trail and conviction felt by many Americans throughout the country because of organized crime.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between November 1919 and January 2020, Palmer’s agents deported nearly 250 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman, and arrested nearly 10, 000 people in seventy cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The overall atmosphere created by the Red Scare excluded any possibility of a fair trial for the accused. Prejudice pervaded the courtroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, from the presiding judge to the district attorney, the police, and the jury.