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What do the following words mean? Write definitions down in your own words.

You may use your phone or a dictionary to look up words you don’t know.

1. Dependency• a dependent or subordinate thing,

especially a country or province controlled by another.

2. Regulations• a rule or directive made and maintained by

an authority.

3. Uprisings• an act of resistance or rebellion; a revolt.

4. Anti-Immigration• The act or stance of preventing or limiting

the entrance of immigrants.

5. Drastically• acting rapidly or violently • extreme in effect or action : severe

6. Increased • become or make greater in size, amount,

intensity, or degree

SOCIAL TRENDS: URBAN VS. RURAL, PROHIBITION AND SCOPES TRIALS

Transition to Modern American

The 1920’s

Urban vs. Rural

Rural vs Urban Life-Styles- By the 1920’s, for the first time in American history more Americans were living in a city or urban areas than in the rural areas.

Urban vs. Rural

Urban Cities offered more job

opportunities and amenities than rural country side. 1. fast pace2. large population3. multi-culture4. drinking, gambling,

casual dating

Rural – Much slower pace with a lot less distractions in everyday life

Prohibition

Prohibition- (18th amendment) could not sell, make, or transport alcohol of any kind. (1920)

Prohibition

Cause – The belief that

alcohol was leading to the decline of society was blamed for many of society's ills, among them severe health

problems destitution crime

Effect – passage of the 18th

Amendment and goes in to effect in 1920.

Crime rates increase throughout the 1920’s

Issues with Prohibition

Crime rates rose severely as bootleggers smuggle alcohol into the United States and organized crime becomes more powerful and dangerous.

Issues with Prohibition

Speakeasies – hidden nightclub/saloon

Issues with Prohibition

Bootleggers - were criminals who smuggled illegal alcohol, especially during American Prohibition and other times and places where alcohol was and is illegal.

Organized crime Bosses– Al “Scarface” Capone, Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll, George “Bugs” Moran, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel

Bootleggers and famous criminals

Al “Scarface” Capone George “Bugs” Moran

St. Valentines Day Massacre

Vincent “Mad Dog” CollBenjamin “Bugsy” Siegel

• 21st Amendment - did away with prohibition

Discussion Question

Turn to the people on your row and discuss your answer the following question: Was Prohibition, during the 1920’s, a modern or traditional viewpoint?

Hints: Modern: relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past.

Traditional: existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established.

Modern Views vs. Traditional Values

• Scopes Trial – or the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating a Tennessee law, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any public school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant.

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Modern Views vs. Traditional Values

The Modern View PointJohn T. Scopes - a biology

teacher was arrested in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching evolution in his class.

Clarence Darrow – Defense attorney in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial who debated the issue of evolution in Tennessee. He made the trial more about proving the merits of the theory of evolution. He called Bryan to the stand to be questioned and questioned his beliefs about science and the bible.

Modern Views vs. Traditional Values

The Traditional ViewpointWilliam Jennings

Bryan – served as the prosecutor, the former leader in Populist movement, he used the bible and creationist views in his prosecution. He agreed to take the stand and be questioned by Darrow.

Modern Views vs. Traditional Values

Verdict: Scopes – was found guilty and fined $100.

Darrow and Bryan’s debate illustrated the growing cultural conflict in the United States during the early 20th century between those in support of more traditionalist values and those in support of more modernism.

Critical Writing Question Day 2

Day 2: The 1920’s had many instances of clashing traditional values with modernism viewpoints. Prohibition and the Scopes Trial are both examples of these clashes. Pick either Prohibition or the Scopes Trial and explain the traditional value and the modernist viewpoint.