Temperance Movement And The Progressive Era

Prohibition: This of course was started as a response to the excess of alcohol at the time, and the damage that the alcohol did to families. Men would come home drunk and beat their wives. This would lead to the founding of the temperance movement. Which was an anti-alcohol movement started by the women that noticed the destructive behavior of men when under the excessive influence of alcohol. The people that were for prohibition were the ones negatively affected by it, or as said before noticed its destructive behavior. That includes: Progressives, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Anti-Saloon League, and maybe a couple of churches/religious organizations here and there. All these groups banded together to make sure alcoholic beverages were …show more content…
Not to mention this era was called the Progressive Era. This is where lots of reform happened. Temperance being one of them. What became a movement that have started in Ohio under the ASL evolved into constitutional action with the passage of the 18th amendment, which banned alcohol. All this time the ASL’s main goal was to further the temperance movement, and they sure managed to get a lot of attention considering alcohol was now federally banned thanks to the 18th amendment. Not like it stopped a black market from sprouting up making it easier to get alcohol, and cheaper too. Such an M.Night Shyamalan twist, but then again not like the ASL had an easy ride in pushing their way towards congress. Now one might assume that the groups mentioned before were all in this together. More like it was a race to see who could do more, and the ASL was bullying its way to the top. One thing that they used to get to the top would be pressure politics. Basically it is using every resource available in communications to make it look like the public actually wanted temperance, and of course the politicians want what the people want because they politicians want a high …show more content…
Sure if you didn’t know of the multiple black markets, and the smuggling going around the nation it might have been a success, but really Prohibition was more like a pause in the alcohol drinking because if one could not find alcohol at the bar, one could easily go to one of the underground markets, and not get in trouble for it. America sure does love its alcohol. However not everyone was for alcohol prohibition. Pauline Sabin was one of the few that were for the repealing of the 18th amendment. Which was the amendment that prohibited alcohol. Now Pauline was a very avid speaker against prohibition. She was so against it that she created an organization called WONPR which is basically the women organization for national prohibition reform. She basically got all the women together and rallied against prohibition, and fight for its