Classroom Resource

Prohibition Primary Sources

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

6, 11

Overview

In this lesson, students will examine sources from a period known as Prohibition when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was outlawed nationwide to answer the question: What were arguments for prohibition? Students will read sections of the 18th Amendment, then analyze four other primary documents about Prohibition to answer the essential question. Students will then write a structured paragraph that answers the Central Historical Question.

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Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.2

Describe reform movements and changing social conditions during the Progressive Era in the United States.

Unpacked Content

UP:SS10.6.2

Vocabulary

  • immigrants
  • reforms
  • movements
  • 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 21st amendments origin
  • Progressive Movement
  • Populists
  • temperance
  • trustbuster
  • muckraker
  • repeal
  • Homestead Act
  • child labor
  • corporation
  • civil rights
  • Ellis Island
  • Angel Island
  • workman's compensation
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • NAACP

Knowledge

Students will know:
  • Immigrant experiences at Ellis Island and Angel Island. Workplace reforms that took place during the Progressive Era (i.e., 8 hour work day, child labor laws, and workman compensation laws).
  • Key leaders of the Progressive Era that contributed to reforms in the United States (Theodore Roosevelt-National Parks System, Jane Adams-Hull House, Clara Barton-American Red Cross, Julia Tutwiler-Education/Prison Reform).
  • Social reforms of the Progressive Movement.
  • The early goals of the Civil Rights Movement and the purpose of the NAACP and other early civil rights organizations.
  • Provisions of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify impacts of historical events.
  • Describe historical movements by comparing and contrasting.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There were causes and the effects, both immediate and lasting, of various reform movements pertaining to immigration, labor, political, social, and constitutional amendments during the Progressive Era in the United States.
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 11 - United States History II

SS10.US2.5

Evaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Jazz Age, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald. (Alabama) (A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.d., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.j., A.1.k.)

Unpacked Content

UP:SS10.US2.5

Vocabulary

  • prohibition
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Scopes trial
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Red Scare
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • mass culture

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The causes, effects, and impact of social and political events in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Prohibition, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the *Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, and the Jazz Age.
  • The impact of influential individuals on social, political, and economic realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
  • The impact of media on social and political realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920.
  • The impact of major works of American artists and writers from World War I through the 1920, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and H.L. Mencken.
  • The importance of technological innovations through the 1920s and the impact these had on social, economic, political, and individual realities in the United States.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Explain social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the United States during specific historical periods and related to specific historical events.
  • Describe the influence of specific individuals and groups on the United States during specific historical periods into modern times.
  • Analyze the impact of technical innovations and changing media on American social and political realities.
  • Determine central ideas of primary and secondary sources.
  • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There were significant impacts of the social changes and the influence of prominent figures in the United States from WWI through the 1920s.
Link to Resource
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons/prohibition

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

Stanford Education Group
Accessibility

Accessibility

Text Resources: Content is organized under headings and subheadings
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CUSTOM

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Comments or Notes

This lesson assumes that students have learned how to write clear topic sentences and support
them with evidence. If students have not practiced these skills in the past, you may want to provide more structure for this activity.

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