Lastly, in the United States, domestic policies are not created to uphold morality because they include intentions to preserve white American culture by attempting to dispose of foreign cultures. One of the reasons the Prohibition Act of 1920 was immoral was because it was enacted to suppress foreign cultures, such of that of the inferior European race, who consumed an abundance of alcohol. The prohibition movement became prominent during the early 20th century with the temperance movement of the Anti-Saloon League, who wanted to prohibit alcohol by law, and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, who linked Christianity to promote abstinence from alcohol. The goal of prohibition was to solve social problems that arose with men’s alcohol consumption, reduce crime and corruption, decrease the tax burden generated by …show more content…
So you could find a number of ways that people could come into whatever issue they wanted to use and use Prohibition as their tool’” (Orkent 9). In the American Middle West, “white, native-born Protestants” linked prohibition to the “xenophobic, anti-immigration feeling” and disgust of different cultures. Although people from diverse cultures all drank alcohol, Prohibition contained a “strong racist element” and was used as a tool to keep “liquor away from black people but not from white people.” This demonstrates white superiority as white people took advantage of government laws, such as using Prohibition as a “tool,” and applied it to social aspects of life that fostered racism. With the influence of the belief of white Protestant nativism, many white Protestants outlawed other immigrants they considered inferior with the Prohibition Act. The views of native-born white Protestants was to prohibit alcohol because they wanted moral conformity, and if immigrants did not support prohibition, Protestants believed they should go back to where they came