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February 27th Update

I'm sorry this is getting out later than normal, but hopefully, you all wrote down your assignment before you left class. This last week, we reviewed the Reactionary Twenties. This is the time period where immigration is the largest of anywhere in the world, but most folks aren't too happy about it. In response, the KKK grows to 4 million members, including senators, policemen, teachers, doctors, and farmers. 500,000 are women. It wasn't until a scandal involving the "Grand Dragon" in 1925, that caused many members to leave. By 1930, numbers dropped to 100,000 and laws were implemented to ban some of the terror tactics used by the KKK. Fundamentalism continued to grow in response to Darwinism and one of the most infamous court cases arrives: The Scopes Trial. John T. Scopes was a substitute science teacher who taught the theory of evolution in a Dayton, Tennessee classroom, leading to his arrest. The trial ensued, causing a great uproar over states rights and wh