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Womans Crusade J.W. Bales Liquor shop
Womans Crusade J.W. Bales Liquor shop, Hillsboro, Ohio-
Eliza Thompson led women in 1873 to sing hymns against alcohol in Visitation Bands to protest saloons and petition drug stores who filled prescriptions. -
Anti-Saloon League
"The Anti-Saloon League was one of the first modern political movements in the United States. Like the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, like most suffragists, they truly believed that alcohol was a drug that was being pushed on consumers. That once you eliminated the pusher that people would stop drinking because temperance was the natural state of humans." -
Hatchetation
Starting in Kiowa, Kansas in 1900, Carry Nation began a 10 year crusade of smashing up saloons. Carry Nation became the most celebrated – and most controversial – temperance champion of her time. -
Adolphus Busch
Adolphus Busch entered the brewery supply business in St. Louis, Missouri in 1857, went into partnership with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser, and soon became the first brewer to succeed at bottling beer for shipment. By 1910, Busch is the most powerful brewer in the United States. -
Washington, DC Mass March
On December 10, 1913, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League march on Washington D.C. to demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution -
"Will You Back Me or Back Booze"
World War I from 1914-1918 -
"U.S. Is Voted Dry"
Anti-Saloon League paper, The American Issue, with headline, "U.S. Is Voted Dry." The 18th Amendment is ratified on January 16, 1919 -
Lawyer George Remus
In 1920, Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor -
Moonshine
In 1922, Frank Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners, arresting them and dumping their whiskey into local streams. -
"Valentine's Day Massacre."
What happened in the streets of Chicago during Prohibition made that city synonymous with murder and mayhem for a generation. On February 14, 1929, Al Capone has seven of Bugs Moran's men murdered in Chicago, the so-called "Valentine's Day Massacre." -
Repealing Prohibition
The 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition is ratified on December 5, 1933