1920s and Prohibition

By alexisschultze

  • Rev. Lyman Beecher’s Six Sermons of Intemperance

    Reverand Lyman Beecher preaches against the evils of alcohol – Sermon 1: "Nature and Occasions of Intemperance"

  • A Strange Quiet

    Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in 1851, after Neal Dow, the mayor of Portland, gathered thousands of signatures on a petition demanding the state legislature enact a law. The law was later repealed in 1856.

  • Beginning of Civil War

    The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery.

  • End Of Civil War

  • Woman’s Crusade, J. W. Bales Liquor Shop, Hillsboro, Ohio

    liza Thompson led women in 1873 to sing hymns against alcohol in Visitation Bands to protest saloons and petition drug stores who filled prescriptions.

  • Anti-Saloon League

    Anti-Saloon League was founded in 1893 by Reverend Howard Hyde Russell in Oberlin, Ohio.

  • Hatchetation

    The Prohibition Party formed in 1876. A prohibition amendment to the Kansas state constitution went into effect in 1881 (the 2nd state, after Maine, to ban the manufacture and sale of alcohol). Starting in Kiowa, Kansas in 1900, Carry Nation began a 10 year crusade of smashing up saloons. Carry Nation became the most celebrated – and most controversial – temperance champion of her time.

  • The Atlanta Constitution Cover: "$100,000,000 For Government From Income Tax"

    The 16th Amendment establishing the Federal Income Tax is ratified on February 3, 1913.

  • Washington, DC Mass March

    On December 10, 1913, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League march on Washington D.C. to demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • Pre-Prohibition Temperance Raid

    Pouring liquor down the sewer on a temperance crusade, Topeka, Kansas.

  • Beginning of World War I

    World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).

  • End of WWI