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?
• changes in urban life in the 1920s

• the effects of Prohibition

• the legacy of the Scopes trial

I believe that both cases did not represent genuine trimuphs for traditional values. The passage from the Volstead Act took away American's rights. By prohibiting alcohol, a product loved by many, it creates chaos because it is something that even though it is banned, people will somehow find a way to bring it in to the United states and distribute it. In my opinion it is for the best that the Volstead Act was a complete failure of an agency. Although alcohol creates problems, it also plays a big role in the economy because it is such a popular product and when it was banned, it took away the rights of the people and there is no traditional values there.

The ruling in the Scopes trial was bogus. Teaching evolution is part of history, it is part of learning and it must be done. Opinions on how evolution started vary profusely, but it is up to the teacher to teach every one at an unbiased level. Traditional values lack in the ruling because the law does not make sense, it is controlling the way a teacher is able to teach which is unacceptable, there is no freedom when teachers begin to become limited to what they can do and are controlled by the government. A man that is fined one thousand dollars for teaching a subject is barbaric, it takes away the teacher's rights.