The small town life was safe, with close ties, hard work, and strict morals while the big city world had anonymous crowds, moneymakers, and pleasure seekers. Small towns had lower numbers of population while cities had larger numbers and booming numbers. The city also had a lot more jobs than small towns and was more lively and out going. Cities also had a lot more people immigrating from all over.
2. Why do you think the Eighteenth Amendment failed to eliminate alcohol consumption?
I think that the Eighteenth Amendment failed to eliminate alcohol consumption because it was not very well funded. It was also not enforced very well so it was easy for people to sneak in alcohol and do things behind the governments back. Plus, it just made people want to do it more now that it was outlawed because that's how peoples minds work; they want to do things that they aren't supposed to do so they broke the law. Others just loved drinking so they broke it anyway.
3. How did criminals take advantage of Prohibition?
They took advantage of it by smuggling alcohol all the time and in creative way such as bootleggers who were women that had containers of alcohol strapped to their legs. Their were also speakeasies which were places that you could consume alcohol secretly and it was mostly middle and upper-middle class men and women. Prohibition also created organized crime such as Al Capone is Chicago. He killed off all the other illegal sellers of alcohol so he would be number one.
4. What was the conflict between fundamentalists and those who accepted evolution?
The conflict between fundamentalists and those who accepted evolution was that the fundamentalists did not accept evolution and wanted to outlaw it from being taught. They wanted everyone to believe in what the bible said. Eventually it was outlawed and stayed outlawed for a while and that clashed with a lot of Science teachers ideas because they believed in evolution and they wanted to teach it.
The overall atmosphere of the 1920's was that the U.S. was growing so the cities were booming so a lot of people wanted to have a lot of fun and by taking alcohol away, it prohibited a lot of people from having fun. Also, the 1920's was all about how the war had ended and everyone was free and happy and then they set another law in place which was immediately from the start, set up for failure.
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