Author: tmims@mail.twu.edu
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How accurate is it to describe the 1920s as a decade of conformity, intolerance and conservatism?
The 1920s of America symbolised the struggle between the rural traditionalists who echoed policies of conformity and intolerance, with the youth and immigrant class of urban areas striving for freedom and looser morals. Hence the conservative policies of the federal government and fundamentalists were bound to conflict with the progressive ideas of modernists and the…