Resistance to Change

Christian Fundamentalists believed modernist Protestants to be in violation of the Bible's teachings and began a movement that endures today.

The Ku Klux Klan, an organization promoting white supremacy and anti-immigration, peaked in its prominence during the 1920s.

The Scopes Trial of 1925 brought to national attention the debate over teaching evolution in public schools.

Democrat Al Smith, the first Roman Catholic presidential nominee, lost the 1928 election in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover.