Assess the Impact of Conservatism on the Usa from 1919 up to the End of 1929
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The impact of conservatism on the USA from 1919 to the end of 1929 was very substantial as during the 1920s many crucial political, economic events and social tensions occurred such as prohibition, industrialisation, consumerism, urbanisation, the āRed Scareā, the rise and fall of the KKK and migrants in the workforce.
During the 1920s, the Republic Economic Policies (REP) enforced the growth of business and the US stock exchange, the growth of business and the ideology of ābig businessā lead to many social tensions, urbanisation and industrialisation during the 1920s. Industrialisation sparked the growth of several factories, housing and offices which lead to urbanisation. Urbanisation caused 14,000,000 migrants from Central, East and South Europe to move to the USA to get jobs and a comfortable lifestyle there, migrants were often hired by Henry Ford at Ford manufacturing factories, this caused social tensions between migrants and American born citizens because the migrants were replacing Americans, making them redundant.
American Conservatism also lead to prohibition laws to be enforced in 1920 due to peopleās beliefs in religion, liquor causing evil, inefficiency in the work place, superiority in race which lead to the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and cities vs rural towns. Prohibition laws were abolished in December 1933 due to the corruption of the law, several bootleggers, mafia families and gangs saw the prohibition laws as an illegal money making opportunity and made large profits from making home made alcohol such as beer and wine.
Social tensions in the 1920s caused the KKK to rise, Americans vs European migrants, Protestant vs Catholic, fundamentalist vs evolutionist, black vs white and anti-multiculturalism. During the time of these social tensions several people of the African-American population were lynched and brutally murdered during the period of when the prohibition laws were enforced.