Swiss Cheese Notes!!!

1. Swiss Cheese Notes!!! • The Alligator Effect • While the rich got richer with ______________, the poor got poorer & more _____________ • At the height of “Coolidge Prosperity” more than half of the U.S. families earned less than $_____________ per year • Yet another ________________ • Perils of Prosperity • - Workers in the clothing industry were hurt by changes in women’s fashions • *Shorter skirts = ________________________________ • - Coal miners faced hard times • *_________replaced ______________as the major source of energy • - ___________________slashed jobs • *Cars, trucks, roads & highways • Sacco & Vanzetti • - 2 __________________immigrants in Massachusetts • - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested for robbery & murder in 1920 • - The 2 men admitted to being _____________but insisted they didn’t commit any crime • - A jury convicted them & they were sentenced to _____________________ • The trial was a symbol of __________________that swept the country • The case also raised issues of what it meant to receive a “_________________” • - An openly prejudice judge • - Limited _______________against both men • - Many thought they were convicted because they were immigrants • - ___________________go by of waiting in jail, then they are executed • *Many questioned the __________________________ • *Many saw it as a sign that the U.S. had to keep out dangerous _________________