Moral Issues and Conflicts: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
- Analyze the relationship between the Women’s Temperance Movement and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment.
- Describe the economic effects of prohibition.
- Explain reasons for silencing speech supporting communism during the first Red Scare.
- Explain the cultural class between creationism and evolution as outlined during the Scopes Monkey Trial.
- Identify key dates and the contributions of key people during the time of moral conflict in the 1920s.
- Define the following terms:
- Temperance
- Women’s Christian Temperance Union
- Anti-Saloon League
- Bootleggers
- Speakeasies
- Red Scare
- Communism
- Espionage Act
- Palmer Raids
- Schenck v. United States
- Fundamentalism
- Evolution