THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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discrimination against immigrants
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clash of cultural values
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fear of international communism
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opposition to the Ku Klux Klan
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the national level, Prohibition cost the federal government a total of $11 billion in lost tax revenue, while costing over $300 million to enforce. The most lasting consequence was that many states and the federal government would come to rely on income tax revenue to fund their budgets going forward.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which characteristics of the 1920s is the best illustrated by the Red Scare, the trail of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the activities of the Ku Klux Klan? increased nativism.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the Scopes Trial illustrate the rural-urban split in the 1920s? The Scopes Trial represented a clash between rural fundamentalism and urban modernism. Fundamentalism and modernism clashed in the Scopes Trial.