Causes And Effects Of Prohibition In The 1920's

National Prohibition Act/Volstead Act- 18th Amendment- The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, banning the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol, took effect in January of 1920. Women’s Christian Temperance Union- The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which considered drinking a sin, had helped push the measure through. Temperance Movement-Another spur to the development of the women’s rights movement was the temperance movement, the effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol. Speakeasies- Drinkers went underground, flocking to hidden saloons and night clubs called speakeasies, (so called because when inside, one spoke quietly - “ easily” - to avoid detection) where liquor was sold illegally.

Clarence Darrow- The ACLU hired Clarence Darrow, the most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes. Fundamentalism- Fundamentalism was a protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of the Bible. Religious Fundamentalism- was another bitter controversy highlighted as the growing rift between traditional and modern ideas during the 1920s. This battle rage was between the fundamentalist religious groups and secular thinkers of science.

13. The Causes and effects of the prohibition were to change american society into to a greater degree a clean, more secure, and capable spot. Then again, it brought about for all the more sneaking around of things like moonshine and some irate settlers in light of the fact that it was a piece of their way of life back home and it created the counter salon alliance which demolished salons that the workers utilized.

14.Criminals took advantage of the prohibition by selling alcohol illegally.

Section 2: The Twenties

Harlem Renaissance- Harlem suffered from overcrowding, unemployment, and poverty. But its problems in the 1920s were eclipsed by a flowering of African-American creativity called the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
Jazz age- Jazz was born in the early 20th century in New orleans, where musicians blended instrumental ragtime and vocal blues into an exuberant new sound.
American Civil Liberties Union- Tennessee passed the nation’s first law that made it a crime to teach evolution. Immediately, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) promised to defend any teacher who would challenge the law.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) a number of African Americans joined with prominent white reformers in New York to found the NAACP the purpose was to aim for nothing less than full equality among the