Liberal And Conservative Changes In The 1920s

The Roaring 20s was a time for many changes in America. The 1920s brought about changes stemming from both liberal movements and conservative movements. Liberal changes brought to the public more sports role models which inspired and new women, or flappers, who strived for equality. Conservative changes increased laws on vice, ideas of racism, and feelings of nativism. This makes the 1920s both a liberal and conservative decade. New sports role models and consumerism are tightly connected together and to liberal change. Babe Ruth was one of the biggest, most well-known baseball player in his time. He was one of the greats and a perfect fit for these new sports role models, who were presented as larger than life and someone who the youngsters could look to for inspiration and shape themselves after. These sports role models were constantly in the public’s eye. Babe Ruth was a

In an excerpt from “five years of prohibition and its results”, the author writes about if the government wants to start controlling what we drink, they might as well make laws to limit the body’s natural functions. These conservatives who pushed for prohibition were mainly apart of the women's christian temperance movement, who saw it is as the belligerent cause of society’s problems. These conservative values against sin led to the much hated prohibition. In “The Klan: Defender of Americanism”, Hiram Wesley Evans supports conservative values in the South. Evans lists several reasons why the KKK thinks they’re beneficial to America, saying that America was founded by whites and we should keep it that way, we shouldn;t mix “breeds” [races] of humans in order to keep them pure, and that foreigners to America shouldn’t be able to change any ideal of Americans. This document written from the KKK embodies conservative values of Americans and their superiority (nativism) that warped history in the