The Clash of Modern and Traditional Values in the 1920s
In the 1920’s America entered an era in which Americans had to go through numerous economical, social, and cultural changes. The booming economy and growth of big businesses, new kind of advertisements, and the introduction of the automobile and radio, all contributed to to new attitudes of American people. Religious values were affected by the drastic changes in society and cases like the Scopes trial got everyone's attention. Cults such as the KKK became popular and women and African-Americans made new ways to identify and change society’s opinions on them. The economy’s improvement changed the standard of living. The main causes of disagreement were the difference between rural and urban America, and clashing values, and the tension was displayed in court cases, anti-immigration laws, and the actions of organizations and people from the Ku Klux Klan.
Even though technology and people’s perspectives were …show more content…
Even though certain ethnicities were used to be welcomed into the United States, but others were seen as a threat to American culture. The national quota act from 1924 states that“ Under the new act, however, immigration from the entire world, with the exception of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Canal Zone, and independent countries of Central and South America, is subject to quota limitations” (Doc 4). For example, southern Europeans such as Italians were usually Catholic and people didn’t really like them, most controversial were Russian immigrants because the ‘Red Scare’ was something that most Americans knew about. The changing country resulted the immigration rate to increase, so the national quota act was passed to reduce the rate of immigration but as this was occurring an organization called the Ku Klux Klan rose back
In the 1920’s America entered an era in which Americans had to go through numerous economical, social, and cultural changes. The booming economy and growth of big businesses, new kind of advertisements, and the introduction of the automobile and radio, all contributed to to new attitudes of American people. Religious values were affected by the drastic changes in society and cases like the Scopes trial got everyone's attention. Cults such as the KKK became popular and women and African-Americans made new ways to identify and change society’s opinions on them. The economy’s improvement changed the standard of living. The main causes of disagreement were the difference between rural and urban America, and clashing values, and the tension was displayed in court cases, anti-immigration laws, and the actions of organizations and people from the Ku Klux Klan.
Even though technology and people’s perspectives were …show more content…
Even though certain ethnicities were used to be welcomed into the United States, but others were seen as a threat to American culture. The national quota act from 1924 states that“ Under the new act, however, immigration from the entire world, with the exception of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Canal Zone, and independent countries of Central and South America, is subject to quota limitations” (Doc 4). For example, southern Europeans such as Italians were usually Catholic and people didn’t really like them, most controversial were Russian immigrants because the ‘Red Scare’ was something that most Americans knew about. The changing country resulted the immigration rate to increase, so the national quota act was passed to reduce the rate of immigration but as this was occurring an organization called the Ku Klux Klan rose back