The Scopes trial, the increase in the size of the KKK and prohibition showed that the liberal values of the "Roaring Twenties" was in constant competition with ________.

These events reflected conflict between changing, liberal values and efforts to preserve traditional religious and social beliefs. The Scopes trial especially brought that clash into view: it pitted the teaching of evolution against religious fundamentalism. Therefore, the blank is “fundamentalism.”

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