Rural/Urban conflicts of the 1920s

At the end of World War I, changes in society began to dominate daily lives.

Conflict arose as an increasingly urban, secular society came into conflict with older

rural traditions. The rise of new ideas and the change into peacetime economy brought

problems in both urban and rural environments. The two sections of the county had their

own sources of conflict, but many affected both.

One source of conflict was fundamentalism, in which the millennial zeal of the

19th century was combined with a less rational way of interpreting the Bible. The

Fundamentals, a series of religious pamphlets, gave fundamentalism its name, and

allowed it to gain popularity. Fundamentalism became institutionalized in 1919 and

1920. The Darwin theory of evolution became more widely recognized and accepted in

the more liberal parts of Protestant churches. Higher criticism of the Bible, much of

which contradicted Darwin’s theory, followed. With the growing popularity of

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