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Day 77 Changing Way of Life Homework: 434-439 Extra Credit: Cotton Club, Harlem Knights.

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1 Day 77 Changing Way of Life Homework: 434-439 Extra Credit: Cotton Club, Harlem Knights

2 Rural and Urban Differences More people moving to cities Metropolis (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia) Neighbors are strangers Tired of making sacrifices many Americans call for end to prohibition

3 Speakeasies and Bootleggers 1919- 18 th Amendment Prohibition Enforcement was under funded Speakeasies- illegal saloons Bootleggers- alcohol smugglers Mafia and organized crime Al Capone- $60 million a year 1933- 21 st Amendment repealing the 18th

4 Science and American Fundamentalist Anti-Science (Darwin) Fundamentalist view reading bible word for word Scopes Trial- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Clarence Darrow defends teacher fired for teaching evolution

5 Summary Questions 1) Nickname for those who provided illegal alcohol? 2) What happened to organized crime during prohibition? 3) What amendment instituted prohibition? 4) Did the government provide enough funds for law enforcement during prohibition? 5) Who did the ACLU hire to defend Scopes? 6) Nickname for underground saloons. 7) What Protestant movement was grounded in the idea that the bible should be read word for word?


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