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Continental Congress passed a resolution urging state legislatures “to pass laws putting an immediate stop to the practice of distilling grain,
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In the 1820s and 1830s Connecticut preacher Lyman Beecher, preached widely about the evils of drinking and attempted to form the first national temperance society.
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Temperance leaders reorganized themselves in 1869 into the National Prohibition Party
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Congress passed an act to set aside a tract of land at the head waters of yellow stone river in Wyoming
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the Prohibitation party proposed, as part of its platform for the presidential election, that the Constitution be amended to establish the complete ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
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States were being ratified during 1918-1919
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President NIxon declared aarbor day, an official national day
