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Temperance and Prohibition

http://prohibition.osu.edu/

Provider: Ohio State University - History Department

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9–12
Subjects
social studies (United States history)
Provider
Ohio State University - History Department

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Prohibition in the United States was designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages. This project from Ohio State University explains why there was prohibition and highlights those who were for and against it. Topics include The Woman's Crusade of 1873-74, Frances E. Willard (1838-1898), The Anti-Saloon League, Cartoons from the Prohibition Party, The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918, American Prohibition in the 1920s, and more.