prohibition

By Tywhitney

  • temporance movements

    begin advocation from alcohol

  • first prhibition law is passed

    the first prhibition law is passes in 1847, but one was passed just beforein the oregon territory.

  • 13 states accept the prohibition act

  • anti saloon league

    a league in which made propoganda against saloons

  • 18th amendment ratified

    the probition of alcohol

  • rise of bootleggers

    The rise of bootleggers such as Al Capone in Chicago highlight the darker side of prohibition.

  • Hoover agianst the prohibition

    President Hoover wrote a speech saying if that there needs to be an end to the prohibition

  • Cullen-Harrison Act

    President Hoover passes this act to legalize manufacturing and distributing certain alcohol.

  • 21st amendment is repealed

  • AA meeting

    AA was founded by Bill Wilson. After prohibition, alcoholism was considered a moral failure, and most treatments of the time were inadequate.