Changing Ways of Life
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| During the 1920s where did most people live? | In the city
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| The 18th amendment was for prohibition, why did it fail? | It was too hard to enforce
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| What characterisitics did big cities have that were new to most people? | They were diverse, fastpaced, and full of strangers
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| What was prohibition? | Manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited
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| Who supported prohibition? | The Women's Temperance Union who thought drinking was a sin, and western and southern protestants
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| What was the Volstead Act? | It called for a Prohibition bureau, or 1500 underpaid agents to monitor the whole country for prohibition breakers
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| What were speakeasies? | Illegal saloons filled with all kinds of people who had a password or special verification
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| Who were bootleggers? | They smuggled in alcohol from Mexico, Cuba, and Canada
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| Who was Al Capone? | An effect of prohibition, he was a bootlegger who controlled Chicagos illegal liquor industry by killing 522 of his competitors
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| Why and how was the 18th amendment repealed? | Only 19% of the nation agreed that it was fair, the 21st amendment repealed prohibition
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| Who were fundamentalists | Crazy people who believed the Bible word for word since it was written by God. Therefore they rejected evolutionism
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| Who were two famous fundamentalists? | Aimee Mcpherson, an actress, and Billy Sunday, a retired baseball player
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| Who was Clarence Darrow? | A very famous lawyer, who stood up for biology teacher John Scopes who was accused of teaching the theory of evolution in Tennessee
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| What was the Scopes trial | Argued over whether or not evolution should be taught in public schools, Scopes lost.
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