The 1920s: CULTURAL and POLITICAL Controversies [APUSH Unit 7 Topic 8] Period 7:1898-1945

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In this video Heimler takes you through Unit 7 Topic 8 of the AP U.S. History curriculum which is set in period 7 (1898-1945).

In the 1920s it was a decade of cultural upheaval. Urbanization continued at a dizzying pace, largely because of people looking for jobs in industrial centers. Women increasingly found work outside the home in factories, but often were paid a fraction of their male counterparts. Immigrants also continued to arrive in America and that led to yet another nativist backlash.

Additionally, it was a period of shifting values, and no event put this more on display than the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. Here, the main contention was whether Darwin's theory of evolutionary beginnings had any place in school curricula. But that argument was more of a proxy battle for the larger ideological battle between modernists and fundamentalists.