"I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian... if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already." — Bartolomeo Vanzetti, statement to the court, April 1927
Vanzetti's statement is best understood in the context of which 1920s trend?
- A
Bipartisan embrace of open immigration from southern Europe
- B
Federal protections for unionized industrial workers
- C
Widespread state repeal of capital punishment
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Postwar Red Scare hostility toward immigrants and political radicals
Explanation
The Sacco-Vanzetti case occurred amid the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, and the National Origins Act of 1924.