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13.1 Cities v. Countryside
Cities• More Immigrants and
African Americans• Large mix of religions, esp.
Catholic, Jewish, etc.• Allowed gambling,
drinking, “casual dating”• AGAINST Prohibition (they
wanted to drink)
Countryside• More “native-born”
“white” people• Protestant Christian• Stricter morals and social
rules• FOR Prohibition (wanted
to stop others from drinking)
Women in the 1920s• Young “flappers” showed off new fashions
and joined men in the speakeasies– New forms of birth control allowed women
some sexual freedom
• But most women were still expected to be good wives and mothers
Prohibition• 1920-1933, Producing and distributing
alcohol was illegal in the U.S.– But could have it as a prescription, could make
your own wine/ hard cider– Many people broke the law anyway
Prohibition• The Volstead Act set up the Prohibition
Bureau to crack down on smugglers– But the govt. didn’t spend enough money to
really stop people from making/selling
Prohibition• People made moonshine in the backwoods,
smuggled liquor in from Canada, etc.• Gangs like Al Capone’s in Chicago fought each
other to gain control of the smuggling business
The Scopes Trial• 1925 court case where a
Tennessee teacher (John Scopes) was arrested for teaching biological evolution– This clashed with his town’s
Fundamentalist belief that humans did not evolve from monkeys
– Scopes lost the case, small-town values were victorious over big-city science