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The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
Prohibition lost support during the Great Depression, from 1929. [60] The repeal movement was initiated and financed by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, and Pauline Sabin, a wealthy Republican, founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR).
National Prohibition Act; Other short titles: War Prohibition Act: Long title: An Act to prohibit intoxicating beverages, and to regulate the manufacture, production, use, and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and to ensure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846. The Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals was a major organization in the American temperance movement which led to the introduction of prohibition in 1920. It was headed for many years by ...
In 1919, the requisite number of state legislatures ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, enabling national prohibition one year later. Many women, notably members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, were pivotal in bringing about national Prohibition in the United States, believing it would protect families, women, and children from the effects of alcohol ...
Prohibition in the United States: a History of the Prohibition Party, and of the Prohibition Movement. McGirr, Lisa (2016). The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. National Geographic Books. ISBN 9780393066951. OCLC 902661500. Pegram, Thomas R. (1998). Battling demon rum: The struggle for a dry America, 1800–1933.
National prohibition of alcohol (1920–33) was introduced with the hopes of reducing crime and corruption, solving social problems among classes, reducing the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improving health and hygiene in America. Prohibition was also introduced in order to boost supplies of important grains like Barley. [3]
Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, [1] Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, [2] [3] was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.