Throughout the 1920s American society was evolving; an influx of immigrants were flooding to our borders and with them came new cultures and ideas. Along with that, World War I had just ended and communism had taken over Russia which would lead to disaster in the world. But, these foreign issues is not all the Unites States had to worry about. The States were falling into a sinkhole, our farmers were being left in the dust (Doc 21.2) while our urban areas were climbing into the sky.
This new idea of urbanization lead to modernists who disagreed with many old Christian values which in turn made the two groups, Christians and Modernists, have a face off which led to even more social unrest. And to top it all off, the Feminist movement was beginning…show more content… They felt betrayed and so some became anarchists, while others took up the Russians lead and started a communist political party. This time period was known as the Red Scare. Many Americans feared that their country would fall to communism just like the Russians, this spawned a nationwide uproar which caused the US to become isolationists and that led to unrest in the American people. They were scared and afraid of the communists so they started to secure their jobs with labor…show more content… Our country was admitting a wide variety of immigrants. From Europeans to Africans, everyone was coming to the USA, this spurred the “natives,” who were immigrants themselves, to create the idea of nativism. One major group the KKK had an outrageous five million members.(Doc 21.2) The KKK prided themselves in stopping any foreigner from having success, especially the Negro, on which they said they hoped one day it would be a crime for a white to marry a black.(Doc 21.2) The African-Americans retaliated by showing black pride with the Black Star Line Inc.(Doc
