1920s Prohibition and Scopes

Chapter 11-2

__________________

• Millions leaving _____ areas to the glitz, glamour and job opportunities of _____– ______________________ leaving a year– Farm technologies also meant

__________________________________– 1920: __________ cities with at least

____________________________ people

Urban vs. Rural

• Cities were more __________________– More association with people different than oneself– More competitive in nature due to

________________________________________– Centers of _______________________________– Electricity– More liberal than country– More risk taking– People moving to city from country were shocked

when they saw

___________________

• _______________________ movement– Believed in _________________________– Skeptical of some of new _______ theories

that were more accepted in cities– Stronger in rural areas, especially in the

__________________________________

Creationism v. Evolution

• Many Americans still believed in creationism– Belief in _________________________________

• Many Americans believed in evolution– Belief that _______________________________

________________________________________– Charles Darwin

• Conflict of culture

Scopes Trial

• 1925: Tennessee banned the teaching of __________ in schools– Strong fundamentalist

population

• Scopes was a science teacher who taught evolution.

• He was arrested.

US feared change

• Clarence Darrow was his attorney (ACLU)

• William Jennings Bryan was prosecuting attorney.

• Scopes was found __________of teaching evolution.

• Showed conflict in culture in the U.S.

______________________

• 1918: 3/4 of people lived in _______ states

• Volstead Act (1919): banning of ______________________________________

• 18th Amendment (1919)

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Would This Make You Stop?

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At First….

• Bars • People • Drunkenness

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But…

• People found ways to drink– Made their own– _____________ opened– _______ smuggled liquor

• Prohibition Bureau of the Treasury Dept. was established to enforce

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Organized Crime

• Decade of gangsters who made _____________ selling illegal alcohol

• _______________ was the head of the Chicago mafia.

• By 1929, less than ____% of American supported prohibition

• ______Amendment repealed prohibition in 1933