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It Begins
The movement started to limit drinking in the United States. Women, in particular, were drawn to the temperance in large numbers. Temperance reformers blamed "Demon Rum" for corrupting American culture and leading to violence. -
Consumption of Alcohol -(B)
The average American older than 15 consumed at least 7 gallons of alcohol a year. Alcohol abuse was uncontolled, temperance advocate argued that it it led to poverty and domestic violence. -
Women's Dedication - (G)
There were 24 Women that organizations were dedicated to the temperance.It was an appealing cause because it sought to end a phenomenon that directly affected many women’s quality of life. -
Rapid Spread -(G)
The movement spread rapidly under the influence of the churches; by 1833 there were 6,000 local societies in several U.S. states. -
Washingtonian Movement -(G)
6 alcoholics in Baltimore, Maryland founded the Washingtonian Movement one of the earliest Alcohol Anonymous with taught sobriety -
First State to enact -(G)
Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting liquor consumption. Twelve other states followed suit, but the laws were difficult to enforce, and public support for the laws quickly waned. -
Alcoholics home -(B)
Carrie Nation, Nation’s first husband, a doctor in the Union army, was an alcoholic. They married in 1867 and had one daughter before separating, due in part to his alcoholism -
Civil War -(B)
The Civil War put an immediate if temporary, end to early temperance efforts. States needed tax revenue earned through alcohol sales. -
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) - (G)
became a national social reform and lobbying organization the following year. Francis Willard was known for her self-proclaimed “Do Everything” policy. She was concerned with temperance as well as women’s rights, suffrage, and international social justice. She saw alcoholics as mentally weak and unstable and believed temperance could help improve the quality of life of individual alcoholics as well as their families and communities. -
Public Education -(G)
WCTU began to lobby for legally mandated temperance instruction in schools to hopefully stop the drinking of minors. -
Destruction -(B)
Carrie after a dream for the next 10 years used axes, hammers, and rocks to attack bars and pharmacies, smashing bottles, and wooden furniture. she was arrested 30 times and has done many things to toucher the country with her temperance message. -
Lessons Taught -(G)
Federal laws now require to be instructed in all public schools, federal territories, and military schools. These lessons are similar to anti-drug today but anti-drinking back then. -
Taxes -(G)
With the ratification of the income tax amendment in 1913, and the federal government no longer dependent on liquor taxes to fund its operations, the ASL( anti-Saloon league) moved into high gear. -
Politicians -(G)
By the time WORLD WAR I began in 1914, an increasing number of politicians were advocating a ban on alcohol, and the conservation efforts for the war gave the temperance movement additional momentum. -
Lever Act of 1917 -(G)
Congress enacted the Lever Act of 1917 to outlaw the use of grain in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, and many state and local governments passed laws prohibiting the distribution and consumption of alcohol. -
Amendment in Effect -(G)
The amendment was in effect, Prohibitionists rejoiced that at long last, America had become officially, and (they hoped) irrevocably, dry. -
After Amendment -(B)
A few minutes after the amendment was in effect, six masked bandits with pistols emptied 2 freight cars full of whisky from a rail car in Chicago. Another gang stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government bonded warehouse and another hijacked truck carring whiskey. -
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre -(B)
Prohibition era encouraged the rise of criminal activity associated with bootlegging. Such illegal operations fueled a corresponding rise in gang violence. including the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929, in which several men dressed as policemen, shot and killed a group of men in an enemy gang. -
Legal Again -(G)
The Twenty-First Amendment repealed the Eighteenth, and manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol again became legal in the United States. -
Volstead Act -FDR -(G)
HERBERT HOOVER, who served as president from 1929 to 1933, supported Prohibition, calling it "an experiment noble in purpose." Hoover was defeated in his bid for reelection, however, and in 1933 President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT called for an amendment to the Volstead Act that would legalize light wine and beer consumption. The bill passed quickly and received widespread public support, and Congress set about the task of repealing Prohibition. -
States that ratified 21st amendments -(G)
Ratified the amendment: Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Wyoming, New Jersey, Delaware, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Iowa, Connecticut, New Hampshire, California, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oregon, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Arizona, Nevada, Vermont, Colorado, Washington, Minnesota, Idaho, Maryland, Virginia, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah. The other 8 took no action to consider the amendment. -
1933 to Today -(G)
Most of the country recognized prohibition as a national disaster in 1933. The popular vote against it was 74%. But millions of Americans continued to support prohibition. Surprisingly, the temperance movement today is alive and well. Furthermore, it continues to support anti-alcohol sentiments.
