Fear of Radicals
· People feared a communist revolution would occur in the U.S.
· Since many anarchists were immigrants, discrimination against immigrants increased.
· During the Red Scare, thousands of supposed communists and anarchists were arrested.
· Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with robbery and murder in 1920.
· Sacco and Vanzetti were admitted anarchists, but claimed that they had not committed any crimes.
· With little evidence against them, Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death in 1927.
· The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 set up a quota system allowing only a certain number of people from each country into the U.S.
* The law favored Protestant nations from Northern Europe.
* However, people from the Western Hemisphere were unaffected by the quota, and thousands of Mexicans and Canadians entered the U.S.
