Download 1. Prohibition

AIM: How did old and
new American values
and ideas conflict in
the 1920s?
1. Prohibition
 A) Jan. 1920 the 18th Amendmentbanned the manufacture, sale and
transportation of alcohol.
1. Prohibition
 Bootleggers-smuggled liquor into
the U.S.
 Organized Crime increased and
gangsters such as Al Capone got
wealthy.
 Illegal bars, called speak-easies,
opened everywhere.
1. Prohibition
 Flappers-women who defied their
traditional social role.
 Drank, smoked, danced the Charleston,
listened to jazz & went to speakeasies.
1. Prohibition
 B) In 1933 the 21st Amendment was
passed, which repealed prohibition.
 Laws that go against public attitudes are
difficult to enforce.
2. The Scopes Monkey
Trial
 Tennessee, Mississippi,
and Arkansas banned
the teaching of
Darwin’s theory of
evolution because it
conflicted with the
teachings of the Bible.
2. The Scopes Monkey
Trial
 In 1925 Tennessee biology teacher,
John Scopes, taught evolution in his
class.
 Scopes was arrested & put on trial.
2. The Scopes Monkey
Trial
 William Jennings Bryan argued the
state’s case against Scopes.
 Clarence Darrow defended Scopes.
2. The Scopes Monkey
Trial
 Scopes was convicted &
fined.
 Laws against teaching
evolution remain in some
southern states, although
they are rarely enforced.
AIM: How did old and new
American values and ideas
conflict in the 1920s?
 What do prohibition and the results of the
Scopes Monkey Trial teach us about the
enforceability of laws?
 Laws that go against public attitudes are
difficult to enforce.