Immigration Flashcards
1
Q
How many suspects did hoover build up files on and how many of them turned out having any basis of truth?
A
60,000 files.
Only 556 had any basis of truth.
2
Q
How many workers did fords river rouge plant have? And how many of these workers were immigrants?
A
The plant had 80,000 workers.
70% of these workers were immigrants.
3
Q
The Sacco and Vanzetti trial.
A
1920, trialed for murder, the trial lasted 45 days but the Judge took only 1 day to make his decision that they were guilty of the crime. In 1921 they were sentenced to death by electric chair and they were executed in 1927.
4
Q
What did Mitchell Palmer do?
A
Arrested 6000 immigrants, only managed to send 500 out of America. This discredited Palmer.
