Question Answer: Americans differed on major social and cultural tensions because some of the issues, such as Scopes Trial, Prohibition, and Eighteenth Amendment, divided Americans at this time. The citizens had their own views on the issues going around. Some thought that alcohol shouldn't be banned others think it should, just like Scopes Trial a lot of people thought Scope was in the right for teaching evolution and others thought differently. People have their own opinions and they are titled to it.
Prohibition: During the 1920s of Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. People called bootleggers still sold alcohol to make money and didn't care about the whole amendment or Prohibition. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime rate and corruption, reduced social problem, and improved health and hygiene in America. Its impact was big on America because it restricted alcoholic beverages and it improved health/hygiene in America. Also, lowered crime rate, this had a great impact on America.
Eighteenth Amendment: The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States and its possessions. The Amendment was the first to set a time delay before it would take effect following ratification, and the first to set a time limit for its ratification by the states. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919, with the amendment taking effect on January 17, 1920. The Eighteenth Amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the United States and at the time was generally considered a progressive amendment. America was impacted greatly because now it was official that alcoholic beverages were banned, but bootleggers sold alcohol anyway.
Scopes Trial: In 1925, John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tenn., classroom. This court case was between The State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes, nicknamed the Scopes "monkey" Trial. Bryan and the anti-evolutionists claimed victory, and the Tennessee law would stand for another 42 years. Clarence Darrow (Scopes's lawyer) and the ACLU had succeeded in publicizing scientific evidence for evolution, and the press reported that though Bryan had won the case, he had lost the argument. This impacted America by having the first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution, the Scopes trial also represents a dramatic clash between traditional and modern values in America of the 1920s.