1920s Clash of Cultures

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1920s Clash of Cultures

• T.S. Explicitly Assess information and Draw
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• Content
• In what specific ways were the clash of cultures
  reflected in the 1920s?

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The Scopes Trial
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Discussion

• 1. What happened at the trial
• 2. What was the role of the ACLU?
• 3. Why do you think this clash of cultures
  manifested itself in this particular way and at
  that time and place?
• 4. What court cases in US history
• would also show the same clash
• later?
• 5. What are the modern day Scopes Trials?

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Prohibition

• http//www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/roots-of-p
  rohibition/

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What are some items CHS has tried to ban?

• How effective were they?
• What other problems might banning something lead
  to?

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If you were a teacher or administrator, how would
you solve the problems of drug and alcohol abuse
at Conestoga?

• Is this a problem the school can solve?

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Prohibition

• Why Prohibition?
• Origins 1800s
• WCTU
• Anti-saloon League

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Roots of Prohibition

• By 1830, the average American over 15 years old
  consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a
  year three times as much as we drink today
  and alcohol abuse (primarily by men) was wreaking
  havoc on the lives of many, particularly in an
  age when women had few legal rights and were
  utterly dependent on their husbands for
  sustenance and support.

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• The country's first serious anti-alcohol movement
  grew out of a fervor for reform that swept the
  nation in the 1830s and 1840s. Many abolitionists
  fighting to rid the country of slavery came to
  see drink as an equally great evil to be
  eradicated if America were ever to be fully
  cleansed of sin. The temperance movement, rooted
  in America's Protestant churches, first urged
  moderation, then encouraged drinkers to help each
  other to resist temptation, and ultimately
  demanded that local, state, and national
  governments prohibit alcohol outright.

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Who said this and when?

• "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause
  of temperance. It is a species of intemperance
  within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of
  reason in that it attempts to control a man's
  appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of
  things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law
  strikes a blow at the very principles upon which
  our government was founded."

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• Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
  Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of
  Representatives

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• At 1201 A.M. on January 17, 1920, the amendment
  went into effect and Prohibitionists rejoiced
  that at long last, America had become officially,
  and (they hoped) irrevocably, dry. But just a few
  minutes later, six masked bandits with pistols
  emptied two freight cars full of whiskey from a
  rail yard in Chicago, another gang stole four
  casks of grain alcohol from a government bonded
  warehouse, and still another hijacked a truck
  carrying whiskey.
• Americans were about to discover that making
  Prohibition the law of the land had been one
  thing enforcing it would be another

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Did consumption decrease?. . .
Speakeasies
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• Effects of Progressivism
• 18th Amendment (1919)- The Volstead Act

What are the Pros and Cons of Prohibition?
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Prohibition Pros

• Overall consumption decreased
• Consumption did not reach 1914 levels until 1971
• Arrests for drunkenness down

• Cirrhosis of the liver down
• Admission to mental hospitals for alcoholism down
• Hospitalization for alcoholism down
• Secondary health problems decreased

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Prohibition Cons

• Enforcement too difficult
• Easily produced at home
• Enforcement too expensive
• Encouraged lawlessness
• More corruption

• Harmful
• products consumed
• Money for organized crime
• Increased urban violence
• Violated individual rights
• Widespread abuse
• Speakeasies

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Izzy and Moe

• United States federal police officers, agents of
  the U.S. Prohibition Unit, who achieved the most
  successful number of arrests and convictions
  during the first years of the alcohol prohibition
  era (19201925). They were known nationally for
  successfully shutting down illegal speakeasies
  and for using disguises in their work.
• They made 4,932 arrests, of which 95 (around
  4,680) gained convictions.

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• As a result of their work, thousands of
  bartenders, bootleggers and speakeasy owners were
  sentenced to jail.1 They used disguises to make
  their way into illegal bars, appearing as
  "streetcar conductor, gravedigger, fisherman,
  iceman, opera singer" and as the state of
  Kentucky delegates to the Democratic National
  Convention of 1924 held in New York, where they
  found only soda being served. They once went to a
  bar and identified themselves as Prohibition
  agents. The bouncer, thinking they were joking,
  simply laughed and let them in, where they
  proceeded to arrest him and everyone inside

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Why repeal Prohibition?
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Impact of prohibition

• 1. why ending prohibition made economic sense
• 2. why ending prohibition actually helped the
  temperance movement in their initial goal
• 3.how it left an enduring legacy on the role of
  government legislation and morality
• 4. origins of a sport

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Benefits of ending prohibition-decriminalized-s
afer alcohol is consumed and controlled-hours in
saloon are controlled-more jobs (bottling
industry)

• 1933- 21st Amendment

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Prohibition today?

• How does the war on drugs compare
• to prohibition?

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