This group started with local chapters in By , there were 8, chapters. Ohioans formed local temperance groups early in the movement. For example, Trumbull County formed a group in and Summit County formed a group in Even though the number of groups grew throughout the U. During the s, American women were expected to keep a happy home and raise good children. Many women thought temperance would solve this problem, so they supported the movement.
However, most temperance groups were run by men and many groups did not let women join. Instead, women formed their own temperance groups. Anthony in New York. With temperance groups working together to gain support, the movement grew. Many states even passed prohibition laws that made it illegal to produce and drink alcohol. However, the American Civil War stopped these efforts, and alcohol use grew during the war. After the war, the U. This caused cities, including Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, to grow quickly.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women battling for the vote. By the late 19th century the WCTU, led by the indomitable Frances Willard, could claim some significant successes — it had lobbied for local laws restricting alcohol and created an anti-alcohol educational campaign that reached into nearly every schoolroom in the nation. Its members viewed alcohol as the underlying source of a long list of social ills and found common cause with Progressives trying to ameliorate the living conditions of immigrants crowded into squalid slums, protect the rights of young children working in mills and factories, improve public education, and secure women's rights.
But the WCTU's ultimate goal, a prohibition amendment to the constitution, still seemed impossibly out of reach. It would take the emergence of a new organization, the Anti-Saloon League, for the drys' dream to enter the realm of the possible. The ASL, under the shrewd and ruthless leadership of Wayne Wheeler, became the most successful single issue lobbying organization in American history, willing to form alliances with any and all constituencies that shared its sole goal: a constitutional amendment that would ban the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol.
Rockefeller, Jr. With the ratification of the income tax amendment in , and the federal government no longer dependent on liquor taxes to fund its operations, the ASL moved into high gear. As anti-German fervor rose to a near frenzy with the American entry into the First World War, ASL propaganda effectively connected beer and brewers with Germans and treason in the public mind.
Most politicians dared not defy the ASL and in the 18th amendment sailed through both houses of Congress; it was ratified by the states in just 13 months. At A. Investigations and reports about alcohol and its consumption include state-level reports like this one on the "manifold evils" of liquor in Connecticut , and nationally-based ones like the report titled The Liquor Problem.
The Anti-Saloon League, a powerful lobbying force in favor of temperance, published yearbooks that detailed the movement's progress toward a national ban on alcohol.
The volume from includes several national, state, and county maps that show an increasingly dry United States. While those working against the abolition of alcohol were not as well organized as supporters of the temperance movement, the United States Brewers Association did try to combat some of their arguments. In February , Congress adopted a resolution proposing the 21st Amendment to the Constitution , which repealed both the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act.
The resolution required state conventions, rather than the state legislatures, to approve the amendment, effectively reducing the process to a one-state, one-vote referendum rather than a popular vote contest.
That December, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the necessary majority for repeal. A few states continued statewide prohibition after , but by all of them had abandoned it. Since then, liquor control in the United States has largely been determined at the local level. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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