What was the significance of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?

Their conviction was the result of poor defense by their lawyers.

Their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity.

Their execution was the first time an electric chair had been used.

Their execution marked the beginning of Red Scares in the United States.

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Karter Bass

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30 November, 20:00

What was the significance of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?

Their conviction was the result of poor defense by their lawyers.

Their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity.

Their execution was the first time an electric chair had been used.

Their execution marked the beginning of Red Scares in the United States.

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Gunner Fernandez · Answer 1

"Their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity" was the significance of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

On 23rd August 1927 in Charlestown Federal prison of Boston Italian settlers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were hanged. Sacco and Vanzetti had been convicted of manslaughter, for seven years prior killing of two people over an armed robbery in a Slater and Morrill shoe factory.

Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists, claiming that somehow the abolition of regimes would bring about progressive politics. Popular society developed a phobia of communism and revolutionary activism in the early 1920s that contributed to an anti-communist, anti-immigrant panic.