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  2. Depiction of Italian immigrants in the media during Prohibition

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    This political cartoon published in the magazine Judge in 1903 is an early example of anti-Italian sentiment in print media. Early anti-Italian publications insisted that Italian immigrants were incapable of being integrated to American culture or adopting American values.

  3. Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Alcohol smuggling (known as rum-running or bootlegging) and illicit bars (speakeasies) became popular in many areas. Public sentiment began to turn against Prohibition during the 1920s, and 1932 Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt called for its repeal.

  5. The Drunkard's Progress - Wikipedia

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    According to the print, the path to ruin starts with a singular social drink provided to the protagonist by "a woman of evidently questionable virtue". [16] [17] He then progresses to drinking to "keep the cold out" and then, subsequently, to intoxication. [17] At the fourth step, the protagonist starts to engage in violence while intoxicated. [17]

  6. Temperance movement - Wikipedia

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    Iceland introduced prohibition in 1915, but liberalized consumption of spirits in 1933, but beer was still illegal until 1989. [90] [91] In the 1910s, half of the countries in the world had introduced some form of alcohol control in their laws or policies. [44]: 28

  7. Volstead Act - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Repeal of Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Political cartoon - Wikipedia

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    A Rake's Progress, Plate 8, 1735, and retouched by William Hogarth in 1763 by adding the Britannia emblem [5] [6]. The pictorial satire has been credited as the precursor to the political cartoons in England: John J. Richetti, in The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660–1780, states that "English graphic satire really begins with Hogarth's Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme".