Cola leaf extract and coca nut juice

The Little Word that Could• “Coca-Cola” is 2nd most well-known English phrase around

the world • 1st is “OK”• The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Invention, by

Allan Metcalf– 1st use in Boston newspaper in March 1839.– A joke abbreviated for “oll korrect,” an intentional misspelling of “all

correct.”– Enemies of Andrew Jackson said he was barely literate and approved

papers with the initials “O.K.” for “oll korrect”.– Telegraph operators began using it for “all clear.”

• Another theory– Martin van Buren as “Old Kinderhook”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eiO_JES4yBY

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Two “soft” drinks as rivals, but Devil = “hard” liquor

• These drinks were specifically created as alternatives to hard liquor

A) Coke and PepsiB) orange juice and V8C) rum and ginD) Poland Spring and Dasani

Should the Government Tax Soda?The push for a “soda tax” on sugary drinks

• By the numbers:– Soda’s rank among all beverages consumed in U.S. = 1– Soda’s percentage by volume of all beverages consumed in U.S. =

26%– Ounces of soda consumed per person annually in U.S. = 6,080

• Part of a larger debate about “junk food” taxes” and “fat taxes”, as well as other “sin taxes”

• A tax of a penny per ounce would raise $15 billion in one year

• CEO of Coca-Cola: “outrageous idea … it never works where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink”

“Great American Temperance Drink”

“cure” dyspepsia and relieve peptic ulcers

Liquor part of U.S. history

• Triangular trade, Whiskey Rebellion, “Alcoholic Republic”

• War vs. Drink– Puritans: pleasure = sin– “Maine Law”– Progressive movement

• Crime, abuse, accidents, disease

• The triangular trade, Whiskey Rebellion, and state laws forbidding alcohol demonstrate that alcohol in U.S. history

A) was only notable during the 20sB) has been a constant themeC) was repeatedly illegal D) has not been a noticeable trend

18th AmendmentJanuary 1920

• Manufacture, sale and transportation = illegal

• 1919 Volstead Act to implement and enforce– .5%– Increased visits to church and doctor

• “Great social and economic experiment” OR “drunkenness driven indoors”?

Speakeasy

Bootlegging

“moonlighting”

Alcohol Funny Car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdKK6L8Z2o

• The “noble experiment” of prohibition resulted in all of the following developments except

A) a substantial reduction in drinking in some regions of the country

B) the creation of a very large force of government agents to enforce the law

C) the rise of organized crime to take over the illegal but lucrative alcohol business

D) the continued defense of prohibition by rural, Protestant Americans

• Which is NOT true about Prohibition?

A) the Volstead Act provided adequate enforcementB) it’s the only amendment to be repealed by another amendmentC) it led to an increase in organized crimeD) it outlawed the manufacture and transit of alcohol

• “The famous seven-ton armored car with the pudgy gangster lolling on silken cushions in its darkened recesses, a big cigar in his fat face, and a half-million dollar diamond ring blazing from his left hand ….” This quote describes

• A) Clarence DarrowB) Red GrangeC) Al CaponeD) Sinclair Lewis

• “Like trying to dry up the Atlantic with a sponge” was an accurate prediction about

A) the search for unsuccessful aviatorsB) the success of identifying communistsC) the failure of finding the Teapot Dome crook D) the failure of Prohibition

•15 legal medical marijuana states and D.C.

• 2012: Washington state and Colorado approved marijuana for personal, recreational use

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLUlqkguf9k stop at 4:30