Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had many things in common, including that both men were <em>anarchists</em>. In 1920, because of the Red Scare people with radical ideas were accused of communists. Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists. They believed in a society without government or laws. A paymaster of a shoe factory, in Massachusetts, died during an armed robbery. Both men were arrested, tried and convicted. They were executed in 1927.