1. Deliberation

2.  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? 2/19- Prohibition

3.  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.

4.  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.

5.  Prohibition Video Clips

6.  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?

7.  Should the Nation prohibit alcohol?  19 th and early 20 th centuries, temperance* gained strength and political influence  Appealed to Progressives… why?  Temperance- moderation, personal restraint

8.  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.

9.  January 1920-the 18 th Amendment goes into effect  Prohibition-bans the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages Let me tell you about life before the 18 th amendment was passed…Men drank too much! They would come home mad & if the ladies were behaving…well that’s a depressing story! With a partner, what do you think this picture means? What was the purpose of it? Some called Prohibition…the “NOBLE EXPERIMENT”

10.  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 I often serve the Cops so I don’t get into trouble Police Officer

11. I hope I don’t get busted with my moonshine!

12.  Because cops and judges were easily bribed with alcohol during this time organized crime became huge  Every city had gangs We will get those gangstas! Put down the booze & nobody gets hurt! In many big cities..the cops were selling Tommy Guns!

13.  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? - KKK - Prohibition - Birth Control - Banning teach of evolution -Women’s rights - Civil Rights

14.  Rural ◦ KKK ◦ Prohibition ◦ Banning of teaching evolution  Urban ◦ Women’s Rights ◦ Birth Control ◦ Drinking ◦ Teaching evolution (somewhat) ◦ Civil Rights  What’s this?