THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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crime
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evangelism
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child abuse
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urban slums
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Detailed explanation-1: -Protestants, Progressives, and women all spearheaded the drive to institute Prohibition. Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in December 1933, repealed Prohibition.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nativism: A belief that one’s native land needs to be protected against immigrants. Many Americans blamed bombings, labor strikes, and the economic recession on immigrants. Southern and Eastern Europeans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Biblical literalists believe that, unless a passage is clearly intended by the writer as allegory, poetry, or some other genre, the Bible should be interpreted as literal statements by the author. Critics argue that allegorical intent can be ambiguous.