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IN JANUARY 1920, PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT

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1 IN JANUARY 1920, PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT
WHO TENDED TO BE SUPPORTERS OF PROHIBITION AT THIS TIME? MANY PROGRESSIVE REFORMERS AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE THE WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE RURAL SOUTH AND WEST NATIVE-BORN PROTESTANTS

2 IN JANUARY 1920, PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT
WHY DID THEY SUPORT IT? BELIEVED TOO MUCH DRINKING LED TO CRIME, WIFE AND CHILD ABUSE, ACCIDENTS ON THE JOB AND OTHER SOCIAL PROBLEMS DRINKING WAS SINFUL THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD OUTLAW LIQUOR TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND MORALS

3 IN JANUARY 1920, PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT
WHO TENDED TO BE OPPONENTS OF PROHIBITION AT THIS TIME? MANY LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES, AND INTELLECTUALS IMMIGRANT GROUPS PEOPLE WHO OPPOSED THE GOVERNMENT’S MEDDLING IN THEIR LIVES

4 IN JANUARY 1920, PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT
WHY DID THEY OPPOSE IT? WERE TIRED OF MAKING SACRIFICES AND WANTED TO ENJOY LIFE DIDN’T CONSIDER DRINKING SINFUL OR UNHEALTHY RESENTED THE GOVERNMENT’S MEDDLING IN THEIR LIVES

5 IN JANUARY 1920, PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT
WHY WAS PROHIBITION REPEALED? LOCAL POLICE AND THE FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WERE UNDERFUNDED, UNDERSTAFFED, AND OVERWHELMED DRINKERS AND BOOTLEGGERS FOUND WAYS TO EVADE THE LAW, THROUGH SPEAKEASIES, HOME STILLS, SMUGGLING UNDERWORLD GANGS CAUSED A RISE IN CRIME AND LAWLESSNESS PROHIBITION CAME TO BE SEEN AS WORSE THAT THE PROBLEMS IT WAS SUPPOSE TO FIX

6 IN 1925, CLARENCE DARROW AND WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN FACED EACHED OTHER IN THE SCOPES TRIAL
WHO WERE DARROW’S MAIN SUPPORTERS? SECULAR THINKERS MODERATE PROTESTANTS LIBERAL THINKERS AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T INTERPRET THE BIBLE LITERALLY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED IN DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION

7 IN 1925, CLARENCE DARROW AND WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN FACED EACHED OTHER IN THE SCOPES TRIAL
WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIM? SUPPORTED SCIENTIFIC THINKING BELIEVED IN DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION DID NOT BELIEVE THE BIBLE SHOULD BE INTERPRETED LITERALLY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE GROWING POLITICAL POWER OF FUNDAMENTALISM

8 IN 1925, CLARENCE DARROW AND WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN FACED EACHED OTHER IN THE SCOPES TRIAL
WHO WERE BRYAN’S MAIN SUPPORTERS? PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS

9 IN 1925, CLARENCE DARROW AND WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN FACED EACHED OTHER IN THE SCOPES TRIAL
WHY DID THEY SUPPORT HIM? BELIEVED IN CREATIONISM, THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS WERE SKEPTICAL OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DID NOT WANT EVOLUTION TAUGHT TO THEIR CHILDREN

10 IN 1925, CLARENCE DARROW AND WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN FACED EACHED OTHER IN THE SCOPES TRIAL
WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME OF THE CASE? SCOPES WAS FOUND GUILTY AND FINED $100 THE VERDICT WAS LATER OVERTURNED, BUT THE LAW OUTLAWING TEACHING EVOLUTION REMAINED ON THE BOOKS


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