1920s and prohibition

1920s and Prohibition

By lydiacallahan
  • Rev. Lyman Beecher’s Six Sermons of Intemperance

    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. This happened after Neal Dow gathered thousands of signatures on a petition demanding the state legislature enact a law.
  • Start of Civil War

    Start of Civil War

    War was fought between the U.S.A. and Confederate states of America. 11 southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. They formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery.
  • End of Civil War

    End of Civil War

    The north won the Civil War

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

    The 16th Amendment establishing the Federal Income Tax is ratified.

  • Washington, DC Mass March

    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

    Pre-Prohibition Temperance Raid

    Pouring liquor down the sewer on a temperance crusade, Topeka, Kansas.
  • Beginning of World War l

    Beginning of World War l

    After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
  • World War l ends

    World War l ends

    Germany won
  • Hatchetation

    Hatchetation

    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.