The Roaring Twenties

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Defense Society, offensive the National Security League and the American Legion led the offensive against radicals and foreigners.

Transformations
Broad patterns of economic and demographic change shaped this transformation in personal behavior. The economy shifted from the industrial model of the nineteenth century to a complex, bureaucratic to most of Americans society in the 1920s. but more labors now worked for large, impersonal firms, and the new corporate order no longer valued restraint, thrift, and sobriety but instead was oriented toward conformity, consumerism, and individual gratification. In addition, the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, as well as Asia, and the migration of blacks from the rural South to northern cities diversified mainstream culture. As white middle class Americans learned dance steps that originated with blacks in Harlem and immigrants mixed with the native-born in urban dance halls and speakeasies, norms that guided the beh...