Target:  I can explain how the "Red Scare" influenced the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti by comparing Vanzetti’s final speech to a political cartoon about anti-immigrant hysteria. Key Vocabulary The Red Scare (1919–1920s):  A period of intense fear in the U.S. that communists, anarchists, and immigrants were plotting to overthrow the government. Nativism:  The belief that "native-born" Americans are superior to immigrants. Nativists wanted to stop immigration, especially from So

Dr. Rosie Uyola explains how the U.S. government limited free speech during World War I by comparing the Sedition Act to the Supreme Court ruling in Schenck v. United States.