The Twenties

It is accurate that the Twenties was a decade of friction and conflict between the values of urban and rural America. Traditional, rural Americans were conservative, and as a result feared change advocated by the new urban Americans who brought forth new attitudes and ideas. Both clashed on the lines of immigration, politics, religion, and women's rights.
In an analysis of the 1920s, William, E. Leuchtenburg wrote the Perils of Prosperity and in it stated that there were different two Americas at that time, rural and urban America. Rural America wanting to preserve their old US began to attack urban America based on radicals, religion, and prohibition of alcohol.
During World War 1, Americans were asked by the federal government to do two things: despise Germans and to not go on strike. After the war ended, two things consequently followed. First, American emotions still persisted and more people were included now: blacks, Catholics, foreigners, to name a few. Second, by not striking, workers felt that they fell behind in wages, therefore, a record number of strikes (3,600) occurred in one year. …