Scene TitleSetting:Characters:Action:Sounds/Smells:Narration:Everyone has just heard the news that President Andrew Jackson has just signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This law would give President Jackson the authority to have agreements with southern Native American Tribes to give land west of the Mississippi River to Indian Tribes in exchange for settlement of their ancestral lands. Some people are devastated and rush to the pub to ease their sorrows by drinking. Even those in agreement with President Jackson feel the need for a victory drink.How it Works:Scene TitleSetting: It is Sunday, May 30th, 1830, and President Andrew Jackson has just signed The Indian Removal Act into law. News spread throughout the country and many, especially those in the East were devastated. Like Americans did in these times for almost everything, they began to drink to console themselves. Drinkers lay on the side of the street, outside buildings, and even in the road, passed out. Characters: - Two inebriated men who seemed to be having a conversation sit passed out in front of a liquor store on some logs.- A drunk old man with torn up clothes and destroyed shoes. - A nicely dressed woman and her young child- A group of men standing at the door of the pub, some already drunk- A fairly young man standing next to the group of men with a large belly, clearly having liver disease caused by excessive drinking- Two men: One very nicely dressed holding an empty bottle of alcohol, the other poorly dressed holding a piece of stick in his hand.Action:People start leaving their houses to go to the pubs to drink their pain away and to try and comfort themselves. Two men, both obviously very drunk by the way they struggled to stand on their feet and slurred their words are arguing. One is in favor of the law President Jackson has just passed and the other strongly opposed to it. They are arguing and each making valid points on why they are right. Thereare a group of men watching this commotion but not interfering with the men. A drunk older man lays on empty alcohol barrels a few feet away from them with a bottle of whiskey and soaked from his ownurine. A lady in her late thirties coming home from church with her young daughter passes the commotion and quickly covers her daughter’s eyes so she doesn’t have to see what is going on.Sounds/Smells:The smell of urine is strong, not only from the old man but from people using the street as their “personal bathroom”. Liquor can also be smelt on everyone and everything. What can be heard orsmelled.Narration:Everyone has just heard the news that President Andrew Jackson has just signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This law would give President Jackson the authority to have agreements with southern Native American Tribes to give land west of the Mississippi River to Indian Tribes in exchange for settlement of their ancestral lands. Some people are devastated and rush to the pub to ease their sorrows by drinking. Even those in agreement with President Jackson feel the need for a victory drink.How it Works:This scene depicts a small portion of what was happening in the early 1800’s, especially that of the drinking problem that Americans were facing. The United States population at this time was around 3 million, yet 60 million gallons of alcohol was bought and consumed annually. This might sound like a lot to us today, but it was perfectly acceptable in the 1830s. In strategies of Sobriety: The Antebellum Temperance Movement, Fredrick Marryat in 1839 states that he believes there is nothing that alcohol won’t fix for Americans. They drank for every reason, death or birth, hot or cold, and success or defeat. The large amount of drinking caused many health problems among Americans including liver disease and damage. This is depicted by the character with what many people may now call “beer belly”. Many people often go their entire lives drinking and not worrying about the effects that the large alcoholconsumption would have on their bodies. The man lying on empty alcohol barrels shows how much people drank and how their excessive drinking led to them being unaware of their surroundings and sometimes not having a care in the world. Alcohol is also known to be a depressant, so those who were arguing in disagreement of President Jackson’s ruling and already having overwhelming feelings had a lot more to come. Alcohol can be smelled almost everywhere and on everyone who had been drinking, and empty alcohol and beer bottles lay around. The drunk old man on the ground with the bottle of alcohol in his hand was used to depict a man like the one in Nathaniel Currier’s Temperance and the Bible who had left his family to go drinking and “make a merry night of it.” The group of young men standing at the pub door depicts how as soon as children were allowed to drink, they began drinking heavily with their friend groups until it turned into a bad habit. They would line up daily at the pub waiting to be served countless amounts of alcohol. With all of this going on, though natural at the time, at least for some people, a young lady and her daughter walks home from church and see this scene. Not wanting her daughter to see the behaviors of these alcohols, she covers her daughter’s eyes and rushes her away before she can start asking any question. The drinking problem in the 1800s was the cause of many things, one especially The Temperance Movement. This movement began at the national level in the 1820s. This development’s purpose was to help people see the error of their drinking ways and to stop completely or at least consume less