Prohibition Lesson Plans

1. Crossroads Middle School, Unit IX What effect did Prohibition have on American society of the 1920s?
Crossroads Middle School Curriculum Unit IX: Boom and Bust: 1921 - 1933 Question/Problem 1: What effect did Prohibition have on American society of the 1920s? Contents Objectives Description of lesson/activity Resources Objectives: The students will be able to: 1. define prohibition. 2. describe the effects of Prohibition on society in the 1920s. 3. work with a variety of primary and secondary resources to learn more...

2. Unit 9- Grade 5 Alcohol and Organized Crime in the 1920s
...hol and organized crime in the 1920s. 2. explain why alcohol was outlawed. 3. explain why banning alcohol did not cut back on crime. 4. compare problems of alcohol and organized crime from the 1920s with those of today. Description of lesson/activity: 1. The teacher should provide information about Prohibition to the students. Students may read the accompanying "Alcohol and Organized Crime in the 1920s." Other possible resources are listed below. The October 1993, issue of "Cobblestone Magazine" has several articles on this topic. 2. Students should complete "Alcohol and Organized Crime in the 1920s" stud...

3. Prohibition: Does It Work?
Prohibition: Does It Work? Prohibition: Does It Work? Florence Harding: Religion, Social Issues and Reform Skill: High School/College Time Required: Two to three class periods + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 1 Culture -+ NCSS Strand 5 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions -+ NCSS Strand 6 Power, Auth...

4. Ultimate Gangster/Crime Films
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5. Kentuckiana Digital Library Home
Kentuckiana Digital Library Finding Aids Maps Ky Bibliography E-Texts Images Newspapers Oral Histories Herald-Leader Photos Kentuckiana Digital Library Lesson Plans << Back to All Lesson Plans "What pushed alcohol to the Black-market?" Subject: US History Age/Grade Level: 11^th Major Content: Prohibition Time Allotment: 90 min Unit Title: Reform Movements Goals and Objectives: National Council for the Social Studies Standards: Standard II: Time, Continuity, and Change KERA Standards: Academic Expectations 2.20- Students understand, analyze, and interpret historical events, conditions, trends, and is...

6. Boom and Bust, 1921-1933 Lesson 1 Boom and Bust, 1921-1933 - Lesson 1
...Concepts 1. Changes in technologies of transportation and communication, in values and habits, and in economic life transformed the face of American life in the 1920s, confirming that the United States had become decisively an urban nation with a diverse population and spectrum of values. 2. Though Prohibition was supposed to make Americans more virtuous, sober, honest, and industrious, it actually led to lawlessness and corruption in American public and private life. 3. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was both the culmination of political, social, and economic forces that had gone out of control in the 19...

7. The Volstead Act
...e of Modern America (1890-1930)The Volstead Act Lessons by Era 1754-1820s 1801-1861 1850-1877 1870-1900 1890-1930 1929-1945 1945 to 1970s 1968 to Present Worksheets Go to the Teaching With Documents Main Page Print Page E-mail Page Bookmark Page Teaching With Documents: The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents Teaching Activities Standards Correlations This lesson correlates to the National History Standards. Era 7 -The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930) + Standard 3A -Demonstrate understanding of social tensions and their consequences in the postwar era. This lesson correlates to the Natio...

8. Roaring Twenties
...y during the Roaring Twenties, a time of great contradictions. The 1920?s were years of previously unknown prosperity and optimism for some Americans. The 1920?s were also years in which the Ku Klux Klan grew and prospered, immigration laws became restrictive, the anti-communist Palmer raids, and prohibition. Grace Coolidge?s wide spread popularity may have been because of her embrace of the optimist side the Roaring Twenties, particularly her embrace of the ?flapper? style and becoming a fashion trend setter of the 1920?s. Objectives: In this lesson students will learn about the Roaring Twenties and e...

9. A Marijuana Debate Timeline
...Politics: Technology Canada and the Sports Marijuana Debate Olympics Hockey All activities on this topic A Marijuana Debate Timeline Activity Overview Subjects History Political Science Social Studies Topic Index Summary Students will create a timeline tracking the debate over marijuana Clip Index prohibition in Canada. All Clips from Duration 1 lesson Index of Great Interviews Purpose To identify the sequence of events related to an ongoing issue CBC Archives Topic Pot and Politics: Canada and the Marijuana Debate 1. Before Exploring Ask students to explain what a timeline is and what it looks like. Dra...

10. Global Citizen 2000 - Civil Wars
...ar. Larson, Wendy Wilder and Tran Thi Nga, Shallow Graves: Two Women and Vietnam, Random House, New York, 1986. This is where the poems came from, but there are many more in this book that traces the lives of an American and a Vietnamese woman and how their destinies cross. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The Chemical Weapons Convention, A guided tour of The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. Available: 9 July 2001 http://www.opcw.org/guide.htm. Assessment: Literary Analysis Worksheet Ess...