What impact did the Sacco and Vanzetti case have on American ideals?
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti extended publicly from May 5, 1920 to August 23, 1927, and be- yond. The questions that history is still seeking to answer are: –Were these men properly indicted for the crime of murder and robbery? –Would a review of the available facts, by reasonable persons, bring a different verdict with certainty? –Was there evidence of a mistrial? –Does a review of the facts, uncovered since the Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, from May 31st through July 14, 1921, bring a different verdict? Were these men treated fairly by the system and by society? Are their families and all Americans owed some sort of debt from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and from the American System of Justice? Was there a silent and unspoken conspiracy? Has the time come for a re-evaluation of this matter; and adjudication, based on all the evidence now available. Will this be meaningful? http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Product... You can find interesting comments – apparently published upon the 70th anniversary – at http://www.saccovanzettiexperience.com/p...
How did Sacco and Vanzetti change America?
Their supporters started a mass counter culture in the 1920s with anarchy. It began the first worldwide protests over the trial. The outcome of the trial was the first time people realized corruption in American government and court systems against immigrants, and it was the first time people demonstrated their disapproval of the government.
How did the Sacco and Vanzetti case reflect the fears of many Americans?
At 3:00 P.M. on April 15,1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776 through the main street of South Braintree, Massachusetts, a small industrial town south of Boston. Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the mortally wounded pair and jumped into a waiting automobile. The bandit gang, numbering four or five in all, sped away, eluding their pursuers. At first this brutal murder and robbery, not uncommon in post-World War I America, aroused only local interest. Three weeks later, on the evening of May 5, 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fell into a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime. Although originally not under suspicion, were carrying guns at the time of their arrest and when questioned by the authorities they lied. As a result they were held and eventually indicted for the South Braintree crimes. Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater. These events were to mark the beginning of twentieth-century America's most notorious political trial. Contrary to the usual practice of Massachusetts courts, Vanzetti was tried first in the summer of 1920 on the lesser of the two charges, the failed Bridgewater robbery. Despite a strong alibi supported by many wit nesses, Vanzetti was found guilty. Most of Vanzetti's witnesses were Italians who spoke English poorly, and their trial testimony, given largely in translation, failed to convince the American jury. Vanzetti's case had also been seriously damaged when he, for fear of revealing his radical activities, did not take the stand in his own defense. More info at the web link below
How did Sacco and Vanzetti case, the 1924 Immigration Restriction Act, and the Election of 1928 reflect Ameri?
- Murder trial in Massachusetts (1920 – 27). After the robbery and murder of a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory (1920), police arrested the Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (1891 – 1927), a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888 – 1927), a fish peddler. They were tried and found guilty. Radicals and socialists protested the men's innocence, and many others felt they had been convicted for their anarchist beliefs. In 1925 a convicted murderer confessed to participating in the crime, but attempts to obtain a retrial failed and Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death in 1927. Protest meetings were held throughout the U.S. Gov. Alvin Fuller appointed an advisory panel, which agreed with his refusal to grant clemency, and the men were executed. They became martyrs to radicals' belief that the legal system was biased. Though opinion remained divided on the men's guilt, most agreed that a retrial was warranted. In 1977 Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had not been treated justly and that no stigma should be associated with their names.....
What impact did the Sacco and Vanzetti trial have on the U.S. Society?
It scared every non whity immigrant and also anybody who dared show non politically correct opinions. It established the American governement of the time as a witch hunter and a pseudo democratic governement as people were tried and condemned for their opinions.
The Sacco-Vanzetti case exposed the divisions in American Society Between?
They hated immigrants back then too