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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.
This league spread awareness of their goals by publishing cartoons, encyclopedias (the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem), fliers, periodicals, songs, stories, dramas and yearbooks. [7] These publications appealed to intellect and emotion. For example, here are two different fliers, one appealed to intellect and another appealed to ...
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.
The 18th Amendment was the amendment frequently referred to as the “Prohibition Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on Jan. 16, 1919. The 21st Amendment, ratified in early 1933, repealed ...
In honor of the upcoming election on November 8th, (don't forget to cast your vote!) take a break from this election and see how those before us have expressed themselves about issues of the time ...
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When Banner steps up to lecture the town on the reasons why the law must be upheld, Wiggum has him catapulted. The town clerk then finds out that the prohibition law was actually repealed a year after it was enacted and Homer is released. Mayor Quimby asks Homer if he can re-supply the town with alcohol, but Homer tells him that he is retired.
From the 1800s until the start of Prohibition in 1920, the temperance movement was a major force in American life, advocating a ban on alcoholic beverages. [1] The movement came out of the Second Great Awakening and grew through revival meetings and missionary groups. [2]