Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti‚ Italian immigrants who had arrived in the US in 1908‚ were charged by the state with the murders of a paymaster and a guard and the theft of more than $15‚000 from a shoe factory in south Braintree‚ Massachusetts‚ on April 15‚ 1920. The execution of Sacco‚ a shoe worker‚ and Vanzetti‚ a fish peddler‚ in 1927 caused a world-wide protest. The trial took place in Dedham between May 31 and July 14‚ 1921. The state’s case was based primarily upon two facts: Sacco possessed
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Sec 2 Selective Service Act Committee on Public Information Sedition Act Ch 19 Sec 3 General Pershing Wilson’s Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles Henry Cabot Lodge Ch 19 Sec 4 influenza epidemic of 1918 Red Scare Palmer Raids Sacco & Vanzetti Election of 1920 Short Essays: 1) WhyCh 18 Sec 1 Reasons U.S. was imperialistic “White Man’s Burden” How U.S. annexed Hawaii Sanford Dole Ch 18 Sec 2 Jose Marti U.S.S. Maine Yellow Journalism Rough Riders Treaty of Paris Ch
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the nation’s heart causing the Ku Klux Klan to loose power. One of the incidents that moved the nation was the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian anarchists who dreamed of a free society. On May 1920‚ police arrested the two men on charges that they had killed two people in a robbery at a factory on South Braintree‚ Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti were both immigrants that could not speak english very well. There was little or no evidence that linked either
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Vanzetti’s innocence during the Braintree robbery and double murder trial? No witness claimed to see Vanzetti during the shooting. Witnesses placed Vanzetti elsewhere during the crime. Vanzetti feared for his safety and that of his friends. Vanzetti’s gun had not been used in the shooting. Points earned on this question: 5 Question 2 (Worth 5 points) What was the significance of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial? It established capital punishment. It established important legal principles. The
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1929 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) ratified Sacco and Vanzetti arrested; First commercial radio broadcast in Pittsburg‚ Pennsylvania; Volstead Act- reinforced prohibition; Merchant Marine Act; Esch-Cummins Act Warren G. Harding elected (Rep) [1921-1923] Washington Disarmament Conference [1921-1922] Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Congress passed resolution declaring WWI ’1919’ had officially ended Fordney-McCumber tariff Five-Power Naval Treaty; Four-Power
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Four issues that reflect this ideological clash are the rise of the KKK‚ who harbored Fundamentalist and nativist beliefs; the Scopes trial‚ which pitted the curriculum of John T. Scopes and evolution against Fundamentalism creationism; the Sacco and Vanzetti trial‚ epitomizing racial bias and prejudice against immigrants; and the Prohibition movement‚ stemming from the World War I German scare and modernist acceptance against Fundamentalist resistance to alcohol. The clash between Fundamentalism
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The Red Scare (1919-1920) Thesis Statement: Did you know The “Red Scare” refers to the time where the fear of radicalism (especially Bolshevism)large number of strikes and bombings resulted in street violence and government crackdowns on suspected radicals. Describing The Red Scare: The majority of Americans condoned these actions during the Red Scare Laws were eventually passed that made the Socialist Party an illegal organization and barred its candidates from becoming candidates in elections
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the klan 1920 People started to pay money to see sporting event Athletes became famous‚ treated as celebrities CHAPTER 20 From Business Culture to the Great Depression: The Twenties‚ 1920–1932 The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti represented what them of twenties America? What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people? The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of what? During the 1920s
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America was not prosperous or united during the 1920’s. Although there were reasons to show that The United States were prosperous during this time‚ there are stronger arguments and ‘harder’ evidence to show that most of population were neither prosperous nor united. These arguments are‚ the collapse of the American economy in the late 1920’s and the countries economical situation‚ prohibition and the truth in society a large part of this being racism. There are signs of prosperity and unity in
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of Versailles‚ America did not join. 3) How did some events of the 1920’s reflect national conflicts over social‚ cultural‚ and religious values? A: The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti proved that America had a fear of foreigners and anyone who shared political differences not shared by the majority of people. Sacco and Vanzetti were foreign Italian anarchists who were unfairly changed and executed. The Scopes trial showed that Americans did not want any religious change and believed that
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