"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
The anti-immigrant attitudes reflected in this trial most directly contributed to:
- A
Adoption of bilingual education in federal law
- B
Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1920s
- C
Federal grants of citizenship to all Native Americans by 1900
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Passage of the National Origins Act of 1924, which set quotas favoring northern Europeans
Explanation
The Johnson-Reed Act (1924) imposed national-origins quotas that severely restricted southern and eastern European immigration.