Professional Documents
Culture Documents
p.434-439
Objectives
Explain how urbanization created a new way of life that often
clashed with the values of traditional rural society
0.7
Cleveland
0.9
Detroit
1.8
Philadelphia
2.7
Chicago
5.6
NYC
3
Millions
Prohibition
Manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was
legally prohibited
18th Amendment
City life
Faster
More educated
Competitive
Looser morals
Organized Crime
Speakeasies
Al Capone
Bootleggers
Fundamentalism
Movement grounded in a literal, or non-symbolic,
interpretation of the bible
Billy Sunday
Clarence Darrow
ACLU hired lawyer, defended Scopes