Temperance Movement Vocabulary

Question 1

Temperance Movement

Answer 1

A social reform effort begun in the mid-1800’s to encourage people to drink less alcohol

Question 2

Hard Liquor

Answer 2

A fermented drink that distilled

Question 3

Anti-Saloon league

Answer 3

An organization that lobbied for prohibition, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems

Question 4

Frances E. Willard

Answer 4

Leader of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Question 5

Prohibition

Answer 5

The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933

Question 6

Speakeasies

Answer 6

Nightclubs that illegally sold alcohol

Question 7

Wets

Answer 7

Anti-prohibitionists

Question 8

Dries

Answer 8

Prohibitionists

Question 9

Carrie Nation

Answer 9

Religiously believed that alcohol should be banned, carried an axe to break beer barrels

Question 10

18th Amendment

Answer 10

An amendment that banned the consumption and distribution of alcohol

Question 11

Wilson Act

Answer 11

Allowed dry states to prohibit alcoholic beverages

Question 12

KKK

Answer 12

They strongly supported prohibition

Question 13

The Crusaders

Answer 13

An influential prohibition repeal group

Question 14

Bootleg

Answer 14

Illegally produced alcohol

Question 15

Domestic Abuse

Answer 15

Violence against family members

Question 16

Lucretia Mott

Answer 16

A Quaker who is one of the leaders in the temperance movement

Question 17

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 17

One of the most influential women’s group founded in 1874 focusing mainly on prohibition

Question 18

Al Capone

Answer 18

A known gangster who violated the Volstead Act 5000 times

Question 19

Volstead Act

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An act passed to enforce the 18th amendment but was vetoed later

Question 20

Demon rum

Answer 20

A term meant to demonize liquor