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1920s
Historical
Overview
The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and profound cultural conflicts. For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented a liberation from the restrictions of the country's Victorian past. But for many others, the United States seemed to be changing in undesirable ways. The result was a thinly veiled "cultural civil war," in which a pluralistic society clashed bitterly over such issues as foreign immigration, evolution, the Ku Klux Klan, and race. The economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties bypassed many groups of Americans. Income was poorly distributed and the farm sector was mired in depression. These factors contributed to the onset of the Great Depression in 1929.
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