There were a battalion of alterations happening in post-bellum United States. The following decennary. get downing in 1920. was one of betterment and growing. New engineering was jumping up and life was pro?table during the station war economic system roar. However non everyone could be pleased with this displacement into modern patterns. The 1920s was a period of tenseness between the push for modernness and the battle to keep traditional values. This tenseness was present peculiarly in the economic. societal. and political kingdom.

The tenseness between old and new was relevant in the societal lives of Americans chiefly due to the recoil from Nativists and the Ku Klux Klan ( which had reemerged stronger than of all time. and was unrestricted by a authorities who believed in small to no federal engagement ) towards immigrants. Immigrant limitation Acts of the Apostless which were passed in the 1890’s-1920. and in 1921. an exigency in-migration act was passed which established a quota system that decimated the sum of immigrants granted entree to the States. America had ne’er earlier experient in-migration like this. over 25million people in the class of 30 old ages. Nativists were enormously against this moving ridge of aliens. and got most of American pumped up right along side them. Before the war. the KKK was focused on African Americans and restricting their vote power through strong-arming them off from the polls. During the 1920’s. the KKK had a revival and now believed that any individual non if white Anglo-saxon descent was below them. The KKK harbored

Alexandra Watson much hatred and was allowed to “march on Washington” . annoying everybody up and
increasing the societal angst and tenseness.