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” “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: 1.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? 18 th 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. 18 th Amendment Fails Volstead Act (1919) est. Prohibition Bureau which enforced the 18 th Amend. –Gov’t doesn’t have enough $ to enforce law Speakeasies = hidden saloons & nightclubs that sold alcohol illegallySpeakeasies –Had to know secret password or have card –Mostly middle-class & upper middle-class

8. 18 th 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empires in large cities create wealthy mobsters - Chicago: Al Capone - 522 gang-related murders ● 18th Amendment repealed in 1933 w/ 21st Amendment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 Why and how was prohibition repealed?

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