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Illinois Social Science Standards
Illinois Social Science Standards
SS.H.1.6-8.LC: Classify series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity.
SS.H.1.6-8.MdC: Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
SS.H.1.6-8.MC: Use questions generated about individuals and groups to analyze why they, and the developments they shaped, are seen as historically significant.
Important Vocabulary:
Temperance Movement - a political movement that worked to encourage the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition.
18th Amendment - declared alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
Prohibition - the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.
Noble Experiment - the nickname given to the Prohibition Era when the U.S. government attempted to ban the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol.
Bootlegging - The illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.
Organized Crime - criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale.
21st Amendment - repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
“Prohibition Enforcement” (1920s)
“Prohibition Enforcement” (1920s)
“Wet” or Dry” (1919)
“Wet” or Dry” (1919)
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