USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The event of the 1920’s which best reflects the conflict in American society between science and religion was (2) the Scopes trial.

Detailed explanation-2: -No event encapsulates the modern battle over religion and science as does the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925.

Detailed explanation-3: -Briefly explain ONE example of how religion and science were a source of conflict in American society during the 1920s. The great argument was between fundamentalism and modernism. The Scopes monkey trial was a fight where Tennessee outlawed the teaching of science in a science book.

Detailed explanation-4: -What event best supports the image of the 1920’s as a decade of nativist sentiment? the free-enterprise system.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nativism led to increased harassment of immigrants, both by official governmental bodies and by individual groups. It also led to increased political oppression of people with certain political ideologies like anarchism or communism.