Movements within US History I

Womans Crusade J.W. Bales Liquor shop

Jan 1, 1873

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

Mar 4, 1893

"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

Mar 4, 1900

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

Mar 4, 1910

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

Dec 10, 1913

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"

Mar 4, 1914

World War I from 1914-1918

"U.S. Is Voted Dry"

Jan 25, 1919

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

Mar 25, 1920

In 1920, Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor

Moonshine

Mar 25, 1922

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."

Feb 14, 1929

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

Dec 5, 1933

The 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition is ratified on December 5, 1933