1920's Immigration, the Red Scare, and Sacco & Vanzetti

Immigration in the 1920's became very restrictive with the Emergency Quota Act, the National Origins Act, and the Immigration Act of 1924. Waves of the 'New Immigrant' led to a growth of nativist, or anti-immigrant, feelings. Those feelings were also bolstered by the fear of the spread of communism. This fear became known as the Red Scare and resulted in the Palmer Raids, where Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted raids, warrantless searches, and rounded up communists, socialists, anarchists, labor leaders, and anyone else he considered dangerous to the United States or the American way of life. Those raids were unconstitutional, but many Americans turned a blind eye to them. Those anti-immigrant feelings were present in the case of Sacco & Vanzetti, two immigrants tried for murder and sentenced to death. They made convenient scapegoats, but evidence suggests that justice was not carried out.

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