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Describe causes and effects of Prohibition on American society

Describe causes and effects of Prohibition on American society. Temperance Movement. A social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages. 1. Men drank irresponsibly. 2 . Religious groups said it was unholy & socially immoral 3 . Wanted to lower crime rates

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Describe causes and effects of Prohibition on American society

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  1. Describe causes and effects of Prohibition on American society

  2. Temperance Movement • A social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages. 1. Men drank irresponsibly. 2. Religious groups said it was unholy & socially immoral 3. Wanted to lower crime rates 4. Needed to conserve grain for WWI • 18th amendment; illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverage • Repealed by the 21stamendment

  3. Results of Prohibition • Speakeasies • An establishment that illegally sold alcoholic beverages during Prohibition • Bootleggers • The making, transporting and/or selling of alcoholic beverages during Prohibition • Birth of Organized Crime because of large profits from bootlegging • Al Capone (Chicago gangster) • Moonshine • Home produced alcohol or whiskey • Created by workers during the “moonshine” to avoid detection

  4. Scopes Monkey Trial • American legal case that tested the Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution • William Jennings Bryan-prosecutor • Clarence Darrow-Defense lawyer • John Scopes-defendant • Biology teacher that taught the theory of evolution in his class. • Found guilty and later his case was overturned on a technicality by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

  5. Describe the causes and effects of intolerances in America during the 1920s

  6. The Rise (again) of the KKK • Increase of lynching in the south • 1924, KKK had 5 million members • Nativism: supported white protestant Native born Americans. • Tried to influence national, state and local politics by using violence against African Americans and other groups.

  7. Red Scare • A panic of communism spread throughout the United States after Russia’s Communist Revolution • Attorney General Mitchell Palmer conducted several raids (Palmer raids) against several suspected radicals. • Red Scare was not only antiradical but antiforeign…

  8. Sacco and Vanzetti • Italian immigrants that believed in anarchy. • Arrested for killing 2 men in an armed robbery. • Claimed their innocence • Found guilty and executed.

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