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Prohibition. Deliberation. 2/19- Prohibition. LT1: Students will be able to answer questions regarding various videos on prohibition and understand why it came about. LT2: Students will assume roles and strategize a position for prohibition.
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Prohibition Deliberation
2/19- Prohibition • LT1: Students will be able to answer questions regarding various videos on prohibition and understand why it came about. • LT2: Students will assume roles and strategize a position for prohibition. • EQ1: What 3 trends were leading to “normalcy” in America? • EQ2: What was life like in the 1920’s? • EQ3: What is prohibition? Amendment?
Groups • Following Laws regulate personal behavior • Within your group discuss your own personal opinion on each of the laws. • Each member of the groups opinions must be heard.
Laws • In an effort to protect young people from over stimulating their young bodies, the Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban prohibiting children under 18 from buying energy drinks • A school board is considering a ban on cell phones b/c their suspected link to brain cancer and the disruption they cause in class. • The federal government is considering repealing the law banning the sale of marijuana in the country.
Videos • Prohibition Video Clips
Day 3: 2/20Prohibition- Results - Deliberation • LT1: Students will assume roles and strategize a position for prohibition. • LT2: Students will be able to deliberate, negotiate, and agree on the ideas of prohibition while assuming various perspectives. • EQ1: What were different perspectives of prohibition? • EQ2: What is the difference between debate and deliberation?
Temperance Movement • Should the Nation prohibit alcohol? • 19th and early 20th centuries, temperance* gained strength and political influence • Appealed to Progressives… why? • Temperance- moderation, personal restraint
Deliberation vs. Debate • Deliberation- Discussion and consideration of all sides of an issue. • Ex) The deliberations of a jury • Debate- contention in argument, dispute, controversy. • ex) Debate over the best singer of all time.
Prohibition With a partner, what do you think this picture means? What was the purpose of it? • January 1920-the 18th Amendment goes into effect • Prohibition-bans the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages Let me tell you about life before the 18th amendment was passed…Men drank too much! They would come home mad & if the ladies were behaving…well that’s a depressing story! Some called Prohibition…the “NOBLE EXPERIMENT”
I often serve the Cops so I don’t get into trouble Speakeasies and Bootleggers • Speakeasies- were hidden saloons and underground night clubs • You had to speak quietly “easy” • Found everywhere • Office buildings, stores, tearooms, apartment buildings, homes • Bootleggers- smuggling alcohol in your boots • Stores sold pamphlets on who to distill liquor from fruits and vegetables • Liquor was hid in water bottles, high boots Police Officer
Organized Crime Put down the booze & nobody gets hurt! We will get those gangstas! • Because cops and judges were easily bribed with alcohol during this time organized crime became huge • Every city had gangs In many big cities..the cops were selling Tommy Guns!
Rural vs Urban • - KKK • - Prohibition • - Birth Control • - Banning teach of evolution • Women’s rights • Civil Rights • What is Rural? • People living in countryside • What is urban? • Living in cities • What do you think Rural Americans believed in? • What ideas did Urban Americans believe in?
Conservative Liberal • Rural • KKK • Prohibition • Banning of teaching evolution • Urban • Women’s Rights • Birth Control • Drinking • Teaching evolution (somewhat) • Civil Rights • What’s this?