Religious Divides in 1920s America.

What was the religious divide in America in the 1920s?

Although there were many religions in America in the 1920s, most people were Protestant. Some were fundamentalists, believing everything in the Bible literally. Others were modernist and incorporated science into their beliefs.

What beliefs led to the religious divide in 1920s America?

Protestantism in the USA was divided according to people's beliefs:

• ❖ Fundamentalists believed that everything in the Bible was literally true.
• ❖ Modernists believed that parts of the Bible could be interpreted differently, and mixed their understanding of it with science.

What was the impact of this religious divide in 1920s America?

Different religious beliefs had an impact on local laws and decisions by individual states about issues such as education. In Tennessee, for example, it was illegal to teach the theory of evolution in schools.