Prohibition and the Scopes Trial

Do you think the passage of the Volstead Act and the ruling in the Scopes trial represented genuine triumphs for traditional values? Think About:

I beleive that the passing of the Volstead Act was a (maybe not "triumph" but an) atcheivement americans with traditional vallues. It was an attempt to lower crime rate in america and to, in the eyes of some americans, rid America of a very dangerous sin. Many of the people who supported Prohibition were native born American christians who deeply believed that to drink alchohol was a sin. I do not believe that the Volstead Act was a triumph for traditional vallues. The acts goals were to cut down the amount of alcohol consumetion in the US by establishing a Prohibition Bureau which would enforce the prohibition. The act on the whole failed miserably. It was largely underfunded and lact the men that were needed to enforce Prohibition. I also believe that alcohol was also to large a part of american culture that it would have been imposible to stamp it out completely no matter how much funding the bureau got.
I believe that the Scopes trial was a triumph for the american traditional values because Scopes was ruled guilty however it wasn't a large one. It was one trial that had ruled in favor of many religious people who believed that evolution should not be taught in schools. However the law banning teachers from teaching evolution in school still remained so on the whole it was a success for curtain people. However the american trational values were starting to change in america particularly in the cities so for some who believed in free speach and separation of church and state this was most certainly not a triumph.

• changes in urban life in the 1920s
• the effects of Prohibition
• the legacy of the Scopes trial