PROHIBITION

Question 1

WW1 (6 points)

Answer 1

1. achieved success during ww1 with the 18th Amendment
2. Anti Saloon League said alcohol would undermine military discipline
3. Seen as damaging to US society
4. People saw it as wrong to enjoy alcohol whilst men away at war
5. Would boost grain supplies for elsewhere
6. Alcohol went against God (WASP)

Question 2

PROTECT FAMILY (8 points)

Answer 2

1. Prohibition fitted neatly into schemes to eliminate poverty, protecting family and social efficiency
2. Contributed to unemployment
3. Many women domestically abused, raped. (marital rape wasn’t illegal yet)
4. Middle and Upper class women began standing up to their husbands coming home drunk every night
5. 9011 marches occurred
6. 1300 liquor cellars closed
7. Womans Christian Temperance Union started
8. ‘homes for inebriate women’- women taking drugs

Question 3

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT (3 points)

Answer 3

1. sobriety in the workplace had become an issue as technology and business became more complex
2. An intoxicated worker in the assembly line is less efficient and dangerous
3. Alcohol was seen as a ‘vice’

Question 4

CORRUPTION (4 points)

Answer 4

1. brewers and alcohol manufacturers began to make millions
2. large income inequality
3. high corruption- many breweries and saloons
4. local politics influenced by corrupt alcohol distributors

Question 5

WOODROW WILSON (2 points)

Answer 5

1. began temperance classes in schools to help future generations- lied about effects of alcohol
2. 18th Amendment passed- banned sale or consumption of alcohol

Question 6

PRESSURE GROUPS

Answer 6

1. Anti- Saloon league wanted rid of alcohol
2. many churches/ baptists joined the movement
3. Financed from church collections
4. propaganda
5. WCTU- targeted prohibition to help poverty and equal rights. also campaigned for age of sexual consent to rise to 16