Timeline: Alcohol Prohibition

Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Jan 1, 1933

Alcohol Prohibition

Alcohol Prohibition causes started in the 1800's and ended in 1933.

Jan 1, 1826

Reverend Lyman Beecher Preaches against Alcohol

In 1826, Reverend Lyman Beecher preaches of how alcohol is evil.

Period: Jan 1, 1826 to Jun 1, 1914

Causes of Prohibition

Apr 5, 1840

The Absolute Shall

Friends meet at a tavern and decide never to drink again.
Thousands of alcoholics meet to discuss their problems.
Saw drinking as a violent and evil thing.
Similar/Starter to Alcoholocis Anonymous.

Mar 14, 1851

Maine Enacts Prohibition Law

Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor.
Started with the mayor of Portland, Neal Dow, gathering thousands of a signatures to demand a law.
There were 10,000 people, 200 legal liquor stores, and around 400 non-offical liquor stores.
The law was repealed in 1856.

Jan 1, 1856

Maine's Law Repealed

Maine's law for prohibition of alcohol is repealed.

Jan 1, 1873

Women's Crusade

Eliza Thompson led women to sing hymns in Visitation Dands to protest saloons and drug stores.

Mar 19, 1876

Hatchetation

The Prohibition Party formed in 1876.
Kiowa, Kansas in 1900, Carry Nation begins smashing up saloons for 10 years.

Mar 19, 1881

Kansas Prohibition

A prohibition amendment to the Kansas state constitution goes into effect in 1881.
Second state to have prohibition.

Jan 1, 1893

Anti-Saloon League Creation

Created by Reverend Howard Hyde Russell in Oberlin, Ohio.

Jan 1, 1900

Hatchetation

Kiowa, Kansas in 1900, Carry Nation begins smashing up saloons for 10 years.

Dec 10, 1913

Washington, Dc Mass March

Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League march on Washington D.C.
Demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.
No amendment had ever been repealed, so they believed this one would last forever.