1. Many Americans in teh early 1920's were hostile towards immigrants and foreign ideas because American's that they were destroying the "Anglo-Saxon" race. American feared foreign political ideas such as communism because they believed that communism would take contro of the American government and destroy the "perfect" democrarcy which existed.
2. Both parents and Factory owner might the opposition to a prohibition on Child labor. The parents of the children might agrue that they need their children to work in order to increase their income and make some amount of savings. Factory owners might argue that children are a source of cheap labor.
3. Scientific theories of evolution caused great controversy because theories such as Darwinism went againist the idea of evolution explained in the bible. Darwinism "has not one syllable in the Bible to support it." ( Bryan) Many protestant whites believed that Darwinism was Atheism.(Hodge) They believed that by teaching Darwinsim, religion is being destroyed.
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These responses seems rather perfunctory. You only scratched the surface on these responses. Addiitonally, please read over your responses before posting.
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Additionally, you were asked to complete a DBQ on the 1920s. Did you forget to post it? You will have one week in which to do so.
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