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After WWI, the United States entered an era of conservative values and a supposed “return to normalcy.” The 1920s were marked by a desire to return to the way of life before the left-leaning reforms of the Progressive Era and WWI. However, the nation was not unified during the decade. Many rifts began to form in American society and economy. The 1920s were marked by discord among many Americans in the areas of immigration, religion, and with the issue of socialism, marked especially by the Red Scare

Many aspects shaped the 1920s, and that includes the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two were tried for killing a paymaster and his bodyguard. They were charged with murder and faced the death penalty. Many people protested to their sentence. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s court sentence sparked a large debate through the nation back then that carries out today as to whether it was justifiable or not. Nicola Sacco worked a steady job at a shoe factory in Stoughton. He

The Sacco and Vanzetti case was one that brought a lot of attention and controversy to American Society. Nicola Sacco was a shoemaker and Bartolommeo Vanzetti was a fish peddler both of which were Italian immigrants working in Boston. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of stealing $16,000 from a shoe factory and murder of the pay master and the guard. In both Chapter 25 and Upton Sinclair’s letter the reader is still left an uncertainty of their innocence or in fact guilty. In our book, the author

Sacco-Vanzetti trial During the 20th-century one of the most controversial legal cases in American history was the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of a double murder, and were sentenced to death by electric chair. Although, the trial wasn’t as simple as it seems, the only piece of evidence tying them to the case was a tweed cap found on the crime scene and many believed that they were only being accused of these murders because of their political beliefs and the fact that they

On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in one of the most iconic and infamous trials in American history. Since that date, historians have argued on the attitudes surrounding this case that gained global attention throughout the 1920s. Immediately following the execution of these Italian anarchists, the liberal public expressed outrage and contempt for the verdict. Felix Frankfurter, in 1927 wrote a piece entitled, “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti,” which dug into the

The 1920s proved to be hysterical in Braintree, Massachusetts. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants during a time period that showed great animosity to foreigners. In the presence of two crimes, one a robbery and assault, the other a holdup and murder, Sacco and Vanzetti were ultimately executed with minimal evidence to support the allegations against them. In the presence of prejudice, acts of injustice to another are inevitable. A witness arraigned Vanzetti of committing

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two italian anarchists took place in 1920. They were “falsely” convicted of robbing a paymaster and killing the guard. They bonded over their ideal of anarchism and used violence to fight against violent and unjust governments. Their case caused extreme tension between immigrants and American people. Thousands of people around the world were devastated by this case and began to speak up. Although their innocence was supported by many people, Sacco and Vanzetti were

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti sparked a national outcry for justice as well as a national debate over American values. Two Italian immigrants, shoe operative Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were falsely accused robbing Braintree’s Slater and Morrill Shoe Company and murdering two of the factory’s workers (After the Fact 256). At the time of the Braintree holdup, the police were investigating a similar crime in Bridgewater. In both cases a gang was involved, and the suspects escaped

Chapter 11, Saco and Vanzetti, in After the Fact begins with a story of an armed robbery in a bank and an armed robbery and murder to a man on the side of the road in Massachusetts during the time of the nativist mood in America. The Braintree and Bridgewater crimes, in 1919 and 1920, seemed to show a patterned and drew attention to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists, where were soon arrested for the crimes. After a long trial, suspicious evidence and

was raised in Dedham, so I wanted to look at the town's statistics. The total number of overdoses from opioids in Dedham from 2000-2012 is 26. I calculated the average for all the rates of the cities/towns. The average is 22 unintentional opioid overdose deaths in the 12-year span. There were about 26 other towns that were in the 20-30 range of opioid overdoses. Dedham is above the average rate of opioid overdose. I am not familiar with the towns that have similar rates as Dedham. There are very