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Temperance And Prohibitionism In The United States
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| Temperance and Prohibitionism in the United States
Prohibition and Temperance played a major role in the growth of America. As a nation, we learned that Prohibition did not benefit society as we hoped it would. We hoped that by extracting alcohol from society would, eliminate public drunkenness and better the family. Instead it lead to a higher crime rate. The smuggling or bootlegging of alcoholic beverages into the country provided great opportunity since, people continued to consume alcoholic beverages even though it was against the law. Temperance in the United States may be traced to the early 19th century, when the first temperance societies were established in New York (1808), Massachusetts (1813), and Connecticut (1813). The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was organized in Boston in 1826. Working with evangelical fervor, the society's members had established thousands of local and state auxiliaries. By 1835 temperance organizations across the coun... |
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