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Booze
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Reverand Lyman Beecher preaches against the evils of alcohol
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A Strange Quiet
Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in 1851, to 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 The law was later repealed in 1856. -
Eliza Thompson led women in 1873 to sing hymns against alcohol in Visitation Bands to protest saloons and petition drug stores who filled prescriptions.
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Frances Willard becomes head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879.
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Anti-Saloon League was founded in 1893 by Reverend Howard Hyde Russell in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League members marched to demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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The War Time Prohibition Act is passed to save grain for the war effort during World War I.
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The 18th Amendment is ratified on January 16, 1919.
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The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, is passed on October 28, 1919.
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The 18th amendment is taken into effect.
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The rise of bootleggers such as Al Capone in Chicago highlight the darker side of prohibition.
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What happened in the streets of Chicago during Prohibition made that city synonymous with murder and mayhem for a generation. On February 14, 1929, Al Capone has seven of Bugs Moran's men murdered in Chicago, the so-called "Valentine's Day Massacre."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act which legalizes the manufacture and sale of certain alcohol.
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The 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition is ratified on December 5, 1933.
