Prohibition Timeline

Civil War

Period: Dec 24, 1861 to Dec 25, 1864

Large amount of alcohol consumed during this point

Woman's Crusade begins

Dec 24, 1876

Eliza Thomson led women to sing hymns against alcohol and protest against saloons

Prohibition party formed

Dec 24, 1876

Frances Willard becomes head of the Woman's Temperance Union

Dec 24, 1879

Anti-Saloon League

Dec 24, 1893

Reverend Howard Hyde Russell forms league

DC Mass March

Dec 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.

Pouring liquor down the sewer on a temperance crusade, Topeka, Kansas

Jun 24, 1914

World War I

Period: Dec 24, 1914 to Dec 25, 1918

World War One

Period: Dec 24, 1914 to Dec 25, 1918

18th Amendment is ratified

Jan 16, 1919

This amendment banned the creation of Alcohol

18th Amendment is ratified

Jan 25, 1919

This amendment banned the import and production of Alcohol

Volstead Act passed

Oct 28, 1919

An act passed to carry out what the 18th amendment was intended for

George Remus starts drug company to gain access to legal alcohol

Dec 24, 1920

Gangs begin to emerge

Period: Dec 24, 1920 to Dec 25, 1930

gangs were formed that imported illegal alcohol, during this period crime rates spiked massively

Stock Market Crash

Oct 24, 1929

Beginning of the Great Depression

Great Depression

Period: Dec 24, 1929 to Dec 25, 1941

End of the Prohibition

Dec 5, 1933

The 21st amendment is passed, repealing the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act