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- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- What relevance to today does the 18th Amendment have?
- Do you think prohibition could work, or is it doomed to fail?