1. Cultural Conflicts

2.  Scopes Trial  Role of teaching religion in school  Fundamentalism- What does it mean?  Literal vs interperation  Religion begins to modernize

3.  Flourished in small cities during Prohibition  Fought against alcohol  Attacked immigrants, African Americans  Stressed nationalism, racial purity  Violent, uneducated rural whites  Spread to northern cities. Why?  5 million members

4.  Immigrants associated with radicalism, disloyalty  Rural Americans believe immigrants are destroying American values  Immigration is limited- quota  1924- National Origins Act- limits immigration  Limits specific groups

5.  Change occurred rapidly (cities, boom)  Fear and hostility of urban society  Democrat Al Smith stood no chance against Hoover  Smith represented the big city, Catholics  Hoover is typical Iowa farm boy  Hoover wins in land slide  America is rapidly changing