The Early Prohibition Movement In The 1920's

The Early Prohibition Movement around the 1800s interrupted Civil War and mostly began by the Anti-Saloon League and Women’s Temperance Christian Union by the Progressive Women. It was mostly rural areas that supported Prohibition and the cities were completely against it. The opposition between the beliefs that drinking alcoholic beverages was a sin was what caused the Eighteenth Amendment to be passed which prohibited the transportation, making, and selling of alcoholic drinks. The Anti-Saloon League, one of the most successful organizations in America, united with some of the most powerful groups and people to pass a constitutional amendment that would permit the transportation, sale, and manufacturing of alcohol. Before the US entered the

Many people then bought alcohol from smugglers called bootleggers and generally showed disrespect towards the law of Prohibition. Later by the 1920s, people felt that the Prohibition law failed and during the Great Depression, they claimed that because of Prohibition, people couldn’t work and criminals were receiving money rather than the government. Finally, the Congress passed the Twenty-First Amendment that repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. States now have complete control over alcohol laws and alcohol consumption increased plenty afterwards. Pauline Sabin, president of the Women’s National Republican Club was against Prohibition and favored the 18th Amendment. She found Prohibition intolerable especially after a group of politicians turned up at her dinner table expecting a drink. Sabin then resigned from the Republican National Committee and found a new group called the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform for the purpose to repeal against the Prohibition law. The 18th and 21st Amendments are connected to Prohibition. The 18th Amendment prohibited the transportation, making, or selling of alcoholic drinks while the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th