Every society goes through periods of change every so often. As various forces are at work among the people and conditions are altered, tensions mount and attitudes change. In the United States, the 1920's were just such a time of hesitation between new beliefs and traditional values. Between the dr...
Reconstruction was needed for this country to come back together after the Civil War. The north and the south had been divided and didn't know how to come back together again without intervention from the government. I believe that Reconstruction helped the African-Americans get some of the freedom...
The Klansmen were from every economic social class, but the leaders would usually be from the elite Lepech 2professional class (Trelease). ... The new KKK movement added anti-nativism, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitic views to the black hatred of the first group and also attacked the issues of birth control, Darwinism, pacifism, and the repeal of prohibition (Benet's; Columbia). It also drew members from all social classes but mainly the lower middle class (Trelease). ... The " Catholics and Jews that were rising in their economic social order" made the KKK feel threatened and caused th...
Grange: It provided social, cultural, n educational activities for its members. Its constitution banned involvement in politics, but Grangers often ignored the rules n supported railroad regulation n other measures. Most members were in the Midwest n south. They set up cooperative stores, grain elev...
Overall, the 1920's marked a time of social, political, and economic advancements that raise the American culture and later on concreted America as a world power. ... Traditionalists went back to the Charles Darwin theory of evolution. ...
