How did prohibition and the scopes trial reflect the effort to preserve traditional social values ?

Prohibition was promoted by very religious protestant communities. They argued that alcohol deteriorated traditional social values because it promoted debauchery, adultery, loss of family values, and corruption. Prohibitionists thought that banning alcohol would result in a better society, with higher moral standards and ethics.

The Scopes Trial reflected the tension, which still lives to this day, between fundamentalist christians and modernist christians and secular people over the issue of evolution. Fundamentalists believe that evolution should not be taught because it conflicts with the bible. The bible says that man was created by God, and evolution argues that humans are an animal species, closely related to other great apes.

Modernists and seculars either argue that the bible does not conflict with evolution at all, or that evolution should be taught instead of creationism because evolution has a scientific basis while evolution does not.

Any account of the African slave trade where racism plays a causal role would need to explain why

racism appeared precisely during the early modern period. Indeed, through most of their history

Europeans did not regard Africans as more deserving of slavery than any other foreign people.

Ancient Greeks and Romans, for instance, thought of Africans as one among many tribes of

barbarians that could be traded as slaves. During the Middle Ages the image of African kingdoms

was one of unlimited wealth, as befits the land where so much gold originated, not one of uncivilized

savages. And even in the early stages of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade we see that plantation work

was not regarded as only fit for Africans: indentured white servants were regularly used alongside

black slaves. Europeans developed a sense of superiority towards Africans, and eventually towards

the rest of the world, as their global influence increased and it is probable that racism reinforced

their willingness to engage in slave trading. But it was most likely an endogenous reaction, not an

exogenous cause.

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