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.