The American Prohibition Era
Union. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was one of the first organizations dedicated to social reform that used applied Christianity to set standards from which the country would eventually experience. Activities like woman's suffrage and missionary work marked the first part of the temperance organization with Prohibition signaling the major shift. Interest in Prohibition was then turned after 1900 into the Anti-Saloon League and that is when legislation began to shift in favor of a federal ban on alcohol sales and consumption. As previously stated, those in support of the move did so because they believed alcohol contributed to the larger social problems of… Continue Reading...
