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Date Posted: 16:49:12 01/16/03 Thu
Author: j
Subject: Ch21 - The Temperance Crusade

I. The Temperance Crusade
A. Many progressives considered the elimination of alcohol necessary to restoring order in society
i. they believed drunkenness spawned violence, and occasionally murder
a. on many occasions, workers came to work intoxicated and performed their jobs dangerously
B. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) (1873)
i. crusaded against drunkenness, family violence, unemployment, poverty and disease
a. gradually, and after the Anti-Saloon League joined the WCTU, the demand grew into the complete prohibition of the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages
C. the 18th amendment
i. by 1916, 19 states had passed prohibition laws, but illegal drinking continued
a. temperance advocates were beginning to push for a national prohibition law
ii. after gaining support for prohibition from rural fundamentalists who opposed alcohol for religious and moral reasons, the prohibition advocates went straight to congress
a. two years later, the 18th amendment was passed for every state in the nation except Connecticut and Rhode island (bastions of catholic immigrants), in January of 1920

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