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Urban & Rural Contrasts: Impact on Society

Explore the societal disparities between urban and rural living in early 20th century America, from demographics to Prohibition woes and organized crime repercussions.

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Urban & Rural Contrasts: Impact on Society

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  1. Urban & Rural Differences How do differing ways of life lead to societal differences?

  2. “Cities… the place to be, not to get away from” • 1920 census: • 51.2% of Americans live in cities • 1922-1929: 2 million pple / year migrate from rural to urban areas

  3. Please answer these questions in your notes: • Approx. how many people • live in rural vs. urban areas • prior to the Civil War? • 2. What is the first year in which • more people live in urban • areas? • 3. Approx. how many people • live in rural areas vs. urban • areas in 1930? • 4. What is the source of this • information?

  4. Urban Living • Big Cities: • NY City, Chicago, Philadelphia • Much more diverse • Black, white, immigrants from everywhere! • SCARY!? • Tolerated drinking, gambling, & casual dating • Impersonal: streets filled w/ strangers • Fast paced

  5. Rural Life… • Rural living = small towns & farms • conservative values and close social relationships • Slower-paced life • More religious and/or moral base

  6. To Drink or Not To Drink? • 18th Amendment (Prohibition)- Outlaws sale, consumption, & manufacturing of alcohol • Rural reformers pleased about passage • Alcohol = crime, wife & child abuse, accidents on job • Anti-Saloon League & Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  7. 18th Amendment Fails • Volstead Act (1919) est. Prohibition Bureau which enforced the 18th Amend. • Gov’t doesn’t have enough $ to enforce law • Speakeasies = hidden saloons & nightclubs that sold alcohol illegally • Had to know secret password or have card • Mostly middle-class & upper middle-class

  8. 18th Amend. Leads to Organized Crime & Bootlegging • Bootleggers = ppl who smuggled alcohol in from Canada, Cuba, and/or W. Indies • ● Bootlegging empires in large cities create • wealthy mobsters • - Chicago: Al Capone • - 522 gang-related murders ● 18th Amendment repealed in 1933 w/ 21st Amendment

  9. Please answer the following questions in complete sentences • Who tended to be supporters of prohibition? • Why? • Who tended to be opponents of prohibition? • Why? Why and how was prohibition repealed?

  10. Speakeasy Flyer

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