7.1.1

7.1.1 Increasing Government and Political Power Explain the expanding role of state power in managing economies, transportation systems, and technologies, and other social environments, including its impact of the daily lives of their citizens. (See 7.3.2)

Focus Question What changes characterized the first half of the 20th Century?

Possible Concentration The government imposed greater restrictions in this era, examples of these include:
 * Prohibition in the United States was the eighteenth amendment and it was ratified in 1919. It was meant to keep people away from the negative affects of alcohol.
 * In 1925, John T. Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in his science class. He broke the law that barred any teaching that goes against the bible.

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