Progressive Movement

By jd18057

  • Resolution

    Resolution
    Continental Congress passed a resolution urging state legislatures “to pass laws putting an immediate stop to the practice of distilling grain,

  • Lyman Beecher

    Lyman Beecher
    In the 1820s and 1830s Connecticut preacher Lyman Beecher, preached widely about the evils of drinking and attempted to form the first national temperance society.

  • National Prohibitation Party

    National Prohibitation Party
    Temperance leaders reorganized themselves in 1869 into the National Prohibition Party

  • Congress passed an act

    Congress passed an act
    Congress passed an act to set aside a tract of land at the head waters of yellow stone river in Wyoming

  • Election of 1872

    Election of 1872
    the Prohibitation party proposed, as part of its platform for the presidential election, that the Constitution be amended to establish the complete ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

  • Ratifying

    Ratifying
    States were being ratified during 1918-1919

  • Arbor Day

    Arbor Day
    President NIxon declared aarbor day, an official national day