Prohibition, part of the Temperance Movement, argued that alcohol and intoxication were responsible crime, murder, and other negative aspects of life. Prohibition started from a wave of religious realism that swept the United States, also leading to other "perfectionist" movements such as the abolition of slavery. Leaders of Prohibition were concerned with the behavior of Americans and with the immigrating Europeans, they thought that behavior would only worsen. In 1919, the 18th Amendment of the Constitution was ratified, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol throughout the United States. Later in 1919, the Volstead Act was passed to clarify the amendment to include all intoxicating beverages such as beer, wine, and malts.
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In 1913, at a convention held in Columbus, Ohio, the league announced its campaign to achieve national prohibition through a constitution amendment. In 1916, along with other temperance forces, especially the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the league oversaw the election of the two-thirds majorities necessary in both houses of Congress to initiate what became the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Another group that strongly supported Prohibition was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which was founded in 1874. Temperance was a popular issue for late nineteenth-century reform women because alcohol consumption often increased the frequency and severity of domestic violence and abuse. Occasionally, men would spend their entire family's savings on alcohol. Under the leadership of Frances Willard, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became the most powerful women's organization in the late nineteenth-century. At one time, the union united over 150,000 members. One of the union's most influential and famous members was Carry Nation, who traveled around Kansas, demolishing saloons …show more content…
People who wanted to have an alcoholic beverage found a way to do so. One way was bootlegging, or the distribution and sale of alcohol. The word came into use during the 1880s in the Midwest to denote the practice of hiding flasks of illegal alcohol in the tops of boots while fighting with the Indians. Many people imported liquor from other countries and ships. They used the river between Detroit and Canada and the overland method on the long border. Bootleggers also built secret breweries with intricate security systems and lookouts. In addition to hiding from police, bootleggers would have to fight off other bootleggers who would try to steal their liquor. This business soon grew into a vast illegal empire, in part, because of bribery. Many law enforcers received monthly payments to look the other
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In 1913, at a convention held in Columbus, Ohio, the league announced its campaign to achieve national prohibition through a constitution amendment. In 1916, along with other temperance forces, especially the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the league oversaw the election of the two-thirds majorities necessary in both houses of Congress to initiate what became the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Another group that strongly supported Prohibition was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which was founded in 1874. Temperance was a popular issue for late nineteenth-century reform women because alcohol consumption often increased the frequency and severity of domestic violence and abuse. Occasionally, men would spend their entire family's savings on alcohol. Under the leadership of Frances Willard, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became the most powerful women's organization in the late nineteenth-century. At one time, the union united over 150,000 members. One of the union's most influential and famous members was Carry Nation, who traveled around Kansas, demolishing saloons …show more content…
People who wanted to have an alcoholic beverage found a way to do so. One way was bootlegging, or the distribution and sale of alcohol. The word came into use during the 1880s in the Midwest to denote the practice of hiding flasks of illegal alcohol in the tops of boots while fighting with the Indians. Many people imported liquor from other countries and ships. They used the river between Detroit and Canada and the overland method on the long border. Bootleggers also built secret breweries with intricate security systems and lookouts. In addition to hiding from police, bootleggers would have to fight off other bootleggers who would try to steal their liquor. This business soon grew into a vast illegal empire, in part, because of bribery. Many law enforcers received monthly payments to look the other