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The fundamentalist believed that this law was needed "to preserve traditional faith and maintain the centrality of religion to American life." This law was put to the test by modernist John T. Scopes. He was arrested for breaking this law and went to trial...
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Scopes. He was arrested for breaking this law and went to trial. William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor for the fundamentalist. Scopes was found guilty. All was not lost for the modernists though, a portion of the trial was broadcasted on national radio and the view of the modernists was strongly enforced...
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American Prohibition On midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the started around the turn of the century, when many people got the idea that most of what was wrong with America was caused by boozepersonal habits and customs of most Americans came to a sudden halt...	6 / 1467
prohibition Prohibition also hurt the economy because the government wasn't collecting taxes on the multi-billion dollar a year industry. One of the main reasons that prohibition failed, was because it was difficult to control the mass flow of illegal liquor from various countries, mainly Canada...	4 / 995
Economic and Social Effects of Prohibition America, damaged the very economic and social aspects of American culture, that it was designed to heal. “Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve...	5 / 1159
Prohibition Mrs. Robinson 4 May 2004 "Prohibition: The Noble Experiment" "Prohibition, sometimes referred to as the noble experiment, did not achieve its goals...	5 / 1354
Prohibition: The Ignoble Experiment The 18th Amendment , considered to be one of the biggest follies of the nation, was brought about with the intent to sincerely help the U.S., but more harm came from it than good...	3 / 569
Prohibition in America Prohibition is the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol liquors except for medicinal and sacramental purposes. In Early America there was a clear consensus that while alcohol was a gift from God, its abuse was from the Devil...	3 / 609
Prohibition - 'the Noble Experiment' Prohibition was designed to rid the country of businesses that manufactured, sold, and or distributed alcoholic beverages. The eighteenth amendment made it a violation of the constitution to do and of the before mentioned...	3 / 802