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Prohibition and the Rise of Organized Crime

Unit Agenda: The Roaring '20s and the Evolution of America

- The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, and America's shifting culture.

- The Fall of Prohibition and the 21st Amendment.

- Politics: 3 Terms, 3 Presidents, 1 Party

- Charles Lindberg and how Air Travel changed the world.

- American culture: Jazz and the Harlem Rennaissance.

- Economics of 1920s America

Pictures of the 1920s

- Break into groups of 3-4.

- Look at and discuss the pictures in the folder.

- Answer the following questions within your group (one group member will present your findings to the class)

- What do the pictures tell you about everyday life in the 1920s?

- What do you think is happening in the pictures?

- Do you think any of the pictures represent important events or important changes in American history?

- Picture Facts - 3 bonus points for each

Today's Agenda

Bellringer

- Bellringer

- Pictures Activity

- Discussion of lead-up to Prohibition.

- Notes

- Video

- Wrap-Up

- What are three things in society that you think should be changed? How do you think society would change/evolve if this change were made?

- Answer in 3-4 sentences.

Bonus Homework

Homework

- What facts did you discover during your research?

- Why was the country pushed towards prohibiting alcoholic beverages?

- Has anything similar to this happened in American history?

- Research crime during Prohibition in the 1920s.

- Find 10 facts about a notorious criminal, including their most famous incidents and the city where they operated.

- Anyone but Capone!!

- Those who present to the class will receive 5 bonus points.

The Winds of Prohibition Start Blowing

- Started as a movement to limit "sinful" results of intoxication.

- The American Temperance Society starts the "dry" movement.

- In 1881, Kansas becomes first state to outlaw alcohol in its constitution.

- Anti=Saloon culture.

- Represented a conflict between urban and rural values. Where have we seen this before?

The Movement Picks Up Steam

Video

- Rural people associated crime and moral corruption with influx of immigrants into cities.

- Argument made that prohibition would help war effort because grain could be used elsewhere.

- 1917 Congress discusses the prohibition of alcohol on a national scale.

- 18th Amendment is ratified by states from 1917-1919, reaches 3/4 threshold for passage in 1919, and goes into effect in 1920.

- Volstead Act set guidelines for Amendment's enforcement.

Discussion

- What relevance to today does the 18th Amendment have?

- Do you think prohibition could work, or is it doomed to fail?

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