USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Overall there were many cultural splits, but the two most significant during the 1920s were the splits between the young and old, and between the urban and rural. Of the two, the urban and rural divide was the newest and most significant, and often determined the reaction of the old.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fact is now an icon of American pivotal moments-the 1920 census revealed that, for the first time in U.S. history, more people lived in urban than in rural areas. The percentages were close-51.2% urban to 48.8% rural-but the significance was astounding.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jazz music became wildly popular in the “Roaring Twenties, ” a decade that witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity in the United States. Consumer culture flourished, with ever greater numbers of Americans purchasing automobiles, electrical appliances, and other widely available consumer products.

Detailed explanation-4: -Immigration, race, alcohol, evolution, gender politics, and sexual morality all became major cultural battlefields during the 1920s. Wets battled drys, religious modernists battled religious fundamentalists, and urban ethnics battled the Ku Klux Klan.

Detailed explanation-5: -Why did the relationship between urban and rural America deteriorate in the 1920’s? Urban domination over the nation’s political and cultural life and sharply rising economic disparity drove rural Americans in often ugly, reactionary directions.