Scopes Trial KKK

Prohibition FailsQuotas

BY THE END OF CLASS

YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO ...

EXPLAIN WHY PROHIBITION

WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL.

EXPLAIN THE GOALS OF THE

KKK

EXPLAIN THE SCOPES TRIAL AND UNDERSTAND ITS

SIGNIFICANCE

#1 - Prohibition?

Fed. agent destroying beer barrel

Laws were hard to enforce

Fed. agents destroying a still

Speakeasies &

Bootleggers?

Gangsters began to run the illegal alcohol markets

1920s = KKK reemerges

Membership: 5 million

Members believe they are “pure” Americans & are guardians of society

KKK march in DC-1927

Klan stressed nationalism & racial purity

Didn’t like immigrants, Jews, Catholics, & urban

culture

Where are

they coming from?

1921: 3% of total # of immigrants allowed

from a particular country

(based on 1910 census)

Excluded Asians

completely

1924Reduced quota to 2% (Based on

1890 census)

1925John Scopes

TN Science teacher who taught theory of evolution

Butler Act: prevented any

teaching other than “Divine Creation” in

schoolsFundamentalism: The Bible tells the

literal truth

Who cares? What’s the problem?

Clarence Darrow (Defense Attorney)

William Jennings Bryan (Prosecution)

Nationwide radio & newspaper coverage

Scopes Monkey

Trial