nations were in shambles and their citizens looked for refuge within the United States. This tide of immigration carried with it citizens from around the globe who brought with them their families, their culture, and their approach to foreign policy. America recognized this immigration as a threat and labeled many immigrants “communists”. This event was called the “Red Scare” and much controversy arose as a result. One of the most well-known controversies of this time was the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare, were many Americans believed that these immigrants were bringing ideas towards anarchism and cause a revolution. The dislikement and discrimination towards immigrants affected them and can be seen in Nicola Sacco’s and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s case The men tied to this case were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti had both immigrated from Italy
widely contested trial, as Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in a trial that received mass protests from around the world (Sharrett). The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti took place during the height of the Red Scare and the massive migration of immigrants to the United States, where a substantial percentage of immigrants were from Italy. With the large influx of newcomers and the end of the first World War, many nativist sentiments arose where immigrants were held accountable for the
there were new automobiles, fashion styles, and music styles. The Golden Twenties was very similar to the Roaring Twenties. During the Golden Twenties, there were social and economic reforms, artistic expressions, Berlin’s Recovery, and the Women’s Liberation Movement (What). While the Roaring and Golden Twenties was a good outlook for America, the Red Scare was not. The Red Scare “was the name given to the period of anti-radical hysteria
American people to fear and despise certain groups. These groups usually included eastern and southern Europeans. The arrest and trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was fixated more on the battle between Anarchy and American traditions rather than the actual evidence the prosecution presented. The Red Scare played a massive part in this. The Sacco and Vanzetti case reflects the fears of immigration, immigrant crime and anarchy. Within a week of going into war on April 1917, acts of political
height of the Red Scare, a shoemaker, Nicola Sacco (1891-1927), and a fish peddler, Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), were accused of robbing and murdering the paymaster and guard of a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Known as anarchists and draft evaders, the accused men faced a hostile judge and a public convinced of their guilt. Despite Sacco 's corroborated testimony that he was at the Italian consulate in Boston at the time of the murder, the two were found guilty on the basis of witness
Case Study of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested near Boston in 1920 and charged with the murder of a shoe factory paymaster and the guard of the factory. Frederick Parmenter and the guard were carrying $16,000 in payroll money for the South Braintree shoe factory on April 15, 1920. They were attacked, robbed, and shot. The two killers escaped in a getaway car. A similar crime was committed in the
what they are now doing to me.” These were the last words of Vanzetti just before his death. Two innocent men executed because of their background information, the location they were in during a crime and the prejudice trials they had to face trying to prove their innocence. Nicola Sacco was born on June 11, 1888, in Torremaggiore, Italy while Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on April 22, 1891, in Villafelletto, Italy (www.workerslibery.org). These two men were both anarchist and Italian immigrants
traditional culture. Like all periods of change, however, the Twenties were accompanied by a reaction against these changes, as the older culture tried to reassert itself as the dominant
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial What happens when change meets tradition? When change and tradition meet change is usually met with denial or acceptance. We see this strongly in the 1920’s with things like women's rights and other points of views being viewed as dangerous or inappropriate. Women in more urban areas in the 1920’s were becoming more open and independant and while they accepted this, many people in rural areas saw this as inappropriate. We even see this in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Sacco