prohibition movement
Dry law advocacy
The prohibition movement was a social and political campaign to ban the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Most prominent in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it achieved its goal with the Eighteenth Amendment (1920), which was repealed thirteen years later.
The movement drew support from religious groups, women's organizations, and reformers who blamed alcohol for poverty, domestic violence, and social disorder.
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- raidSudden armed incursion
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- rum runnerAlcohol smuggler, especially maritime
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- American Reformsabolitionism, social reform, women's suffrage, women's rights, temperance
- Temperanceteetotalism, alcohol abstinence, WCTU, 18th Amendment, dry laws
- 20th Century HistoryWorld War I, WWI, Great Depression, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution
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