In many ways, the New Era present in the 1920s represented a social and cultural revolution in the United States. This era introduced a new modern aspect and way of doing things that conflicted with tradition that was seen as important by the older generations. This new conflict and questioning of tradition caused the New Era to not be fully accepted by all. Those who did not agree with the new way of doing things joined a religious movement, known as Fundamentalism. These fundamentalists believed the bible was literally true and without error. They even rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Beliefs like this lead to laws against the teaching of evolution in public school. An example of the enactment of these laws is the Scopes “Monkey”
