Prohibition in America

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September 20, 2015

 

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Communities attempted to stop alcohol abuse with informal controls but when informal controls failed, there were always legal ones. People began to push for legal ways to limit alcohol abuse. In the 1800's temperance organizations began to sprout up across America. The prohibition or "dry" movement began in the 1840s, mostly supported by devoted religious organizations, especially the Methodists...
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In the late 1800s the temperance movement moved its focus from abstinence to all behavior and institutions related to alcohol consumption. This meant that anything related to alcohol in any way, they felt, should be banned. With the American Civil War (1861-1865) the movement soon lost it's strength, and prohibition was no longer a major political issue...
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