Support for Prohibition
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- Support for Prohibition
- Religious
- Support for Prohibition grew in 1880s and '90s, especially among protestant churches and women's pressure groups
- Protestant churches called alcohol 'demon drink'
- Alcohol associated with the devil and links with evil
- Carrie Nation smashed up bars with an axe
- Anti-Saloon League formed in 1893
- Campaigned for states to prohibit the sale of alcohol
- 26 out of 48 states were 'dry' by 1916
- Groups went into local bars to sing hymns and try to convert customers
- Believed saloons were the centre of the drink problem and many other social problems
- Social and economic
- Men were wasting away their wages in bars instead of spending it on their family
- Wives and children left in poverty and with no food
- Saloons were also a place of gambling, prostitution, and disease
- Evangelicals saw the saloons as immoral
- Links with drinking and domestic violence
- Divorce rate rose to 4 per 1,000 in 1900
- Many employers wanted their employees sober as drinking led to accidents at work
- Drinking reduces efficiency at the work place
- Rockefeller and Heinz against alcohol and supported Prohibition
- Men were wasting away their wages in bars instead of spending it on their family
- World War One
- Support for Prohibition increased during the war
- Seen as wasteful to use grain to make alcohol rather than to feed soldiers
- 1917 Level Act banned the use of grain to make alcohol
- Fears that soldiers would get drunk and go with prostitutes
- Drinking was also seen as a foreign problem
- Catholics (e.g. the Irish and the Italians) were linked to excessive drinking and also weren't Old Stock Americans
- Large brewers were German (e.g. Pabst and Leiber, and Ruppert) so supporting alcohol trade was seen as unpatriotic
- Prohibition
- Eighteenth Amendment introduced in January 1919
- Woodrow Wilson in office
- prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation on intoxicating liquors"
- October 1919 - Volstead Act defined 'intoxicating liquors' as drink with more than 0.5% alcohol
- Eighteenth Amendment introduced in January 1919
- Religious
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