How did fundamentalists challenge the new urban culture of the 1920s?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Fundamentalists held traditional religious beliefs and felt alienated from city life, science, and much of what modernization entailed.
2. Fundamentalists campaigned against teaching evolution in the public schools, leading to the Scopes Trial and drawing the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton,
Tennessee.
3. Aggressive fundamentalist sects, such as the Churches of Christ, the Pentecostals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses, grew rapidly.
4. Many of those who came to the city in the 1920s brought their religious beliefs with them and found new outlets for them, such as the Church of the Four-Square Gospel in Los Angeles.
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