1. Vocabulary/Identifcation
Prohibition
fundamentalism
Clarence Darrow
Scopes trial
bootlegger
speakeasy

2. Chapter 13 -1
Changing Ways

3. Section Objectives
Describe how urbanization created a new way of life that clashed with the values of a traditional society.
Identify and describe the controversy between science and religion in 1920’s America.

4. Prohibition Supporters Progressive reformers and religious groups
Anti-saloon league
Women’s Temperance League
People who lived in rural areas, or in the South
Native born Protestants

5. Prohibition Supporters What were the reasons they supported this
Believed too much drinking led to:
Increased crime
Child abuse
Spousal abuse
Other social problems
Gambling
Theft
Murder

6. Prohibition Supporters What were the reasons they supported this
Drinking was sinful
To protect the publics’ morals and health

7. Women’s Christian Temperance Union

8. Concerns of Prohibitionists

9. Cartoonist View of Enforcement
of Prohibition

10. Prohibition Opponents Liberals Conservatives Intellectuals
Immigrant groups
People who opposed the meddling of the government in their lives

11. Prohibition Opponents Why Tired of making sacrifices
Wanted to “enjoy” life
Didn’t consider drinking unhealthy or sinful
Resented the fact that government was beginning to dictate aspects of their lives

12. Opponents
How it ended
Local police and federal enforcement agencies were underfunded, understaffed, and overwhelmed.
Drinkers and Bootleggers found ways around the law
Speakeasies
Home stills
Smuggling

13. Opponents How it ended Gangs caused a rise in crime and lawlessness
Prohibition came to be viewed as creating more problems than it fixed
Finally repealed on December 5, 1933

14. Bootlegging Operation – Illegal Brewery

16. Speakeasies

17. Scopes Trial Supporters Secular thinkers Moderate Protestants
Liberal thinkers
ACLU
People who did not interpret the Bible literally
People who believed in the theories of Charles Darwin

18. Lawyers in the case trying evolution
Clarence Darrow (l) and William Jennings Bryan (r)

19. John T. Scopes

20. Scopes Trial Supporters Why Supported scientific thinking
Believed Darwin’s theories to be factual
Were concerned about growing power of fundamentalists

21. Scopes Trial Opponents Why Fundamental Protestants
Believed in creationism
Accepted only a literal interpretation of Genesis
Skeptical of all scientific knowledge
Did not want children to be taught evolution

22. Scopes Trial Outcome Scopes was found guilty
Fined $100
Did not pay it
Verdict was later overturned in a higher court
Even today, laws remain that forbid the teaching of evolution

23. Cartoonist View of the Trial

24. Pro-evolution Cartoonist
Takes a Jab at Bryan