PPT-Prohibition Congress passed 18th Amendment in 1920

read the manufacture sale or transportation of intoxicating liquorsis hereby prohibited EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION Alcohol consumption went down ⅓ Alcohol related deaths declined Decrease of arrests for drunkenness . . UNDER . ATTACK. The Culture Wars . of the 1920s. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION. The Culture War. “Normalcy” Under Attack. Nativism. XENOPHOBIA. The Bolshevik Revolution. (1917). POSSIBLY . YOU!. Communists. Ch. 3 Sec. 3. The US Constitution is the longest lasting national constitution in the world!. How / why do you think that is?. Why does the Constitution have an Amendment Process?. Founding Fathers wanted it to endure. 1920s. Write the main idea of each slide.. Prohibition. The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 through 1933, and was an attempt to legislate morality. It took a Constitutional amendment to enact it, and another one to repeal it. The attempt to decrease the "evils" of alcohol actually created more - and new - types of crime.. 1920-1933. Passed by the 18. th. Amendment. Growth of criminal organizations. America’s problems blamed on alcohol . Prohibition. 18. th. Amendment – January 17. th. , 1920. Section . 1..  After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.. Introductory Information for . The Great Gatsby. What is Prohibition?. The 18. th. Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.. The Volstead Act . (The law that accompanied the amendment.). Ratified on January 16, 1919. The U.S. went dry on January 17, 1920.. “A return to normalcy”. The Roaring 20’s. The Jazz Age. The Good Times. Impact. Progressivism. Imperialism / Expansionism. WWI . A New Era. In 1920, Warren G Harding is elected president. States the nation needed a “return to normalcy”. . UNDER . ATTACK. The Culture Wars . of the 1920s. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION. USHC 6.2. Explain the causes and effects of the social change and conflict between traditional and modern culture that took place during the 1920s, including the role of women, the “Red Scare”, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, immigration quotas, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial. . John Lyons. Prohibition. The ratification of the 18. th. amendment began the era known as Prohibition.. However, the Prohibition movement began in the 1820’s-1830’s when religious revivalism was calling for temperance.. (Library of Congress). In the 1920s baseball recovered from the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919 as attendance soared in ballparks throughout the country. (. Photodisc. , Inc.). Charles Lindbergh with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. His 1927 flight from New York to Paris instantly made him an American hero. (Library of Congress). th. Amendment? . Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?. PROHIBITION AND CRIME. The 18. th. Amendment: . banned the sale and consumption of alcohol . Prohibition Support . Volstead Act:. . law enacted by congress to enforce the 18. “”Hey what about the 24th?” read . and annotate the text for Speaker and Occasion. . Highlight textual evidence using your . Blue or Purple. Label your evidence with an S and O.. Write your annotation using Sentence Stems! . Objective: Explain the Temperance movement and how women won the right to vote. Temperance Movement. a campaign to stop the drinking . of alcohol. . During the industrial revolution, . workers would typically come to . PROHIBITION IN PRACTICE. ENFORCING THE NEW PROHIBITION LAW PROVED TO BE VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE, AS MAKING, TRANSPORTING, AND SELLING ALCOHOL WAS ILLEGAL, BUT DRINKING IT WAS NOT.. PROHIBITION GAVE RISE TO HUGE SMUGGLING OPERATIONS, AS ALCOHOL SLIPPED INTO THE COUNTRY THROUGH STATES LIKE MICHIGAN ON THE CANADIAN BORDER.. th. Amendment.. W.E.B. du Bois. W.E.B. du Bois was an African-American civil rights leader and author. A graduate of Harvard University, du Bois was a supporter of full equality for black Americans and was a co-founder of the largest civil rights organization in U.S. history – the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Unlike Booker T. Washington (another prominent leader o f the Progressive Era), who believed black should focus on .