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"Nature and Occasions of Intemperance"
-Reverend Lyman Beecher preaches against the evils of alcohol
-This is a glowing description of the sin of intemperance. None but the pencil of inspiration, could have thrown upon the canvass so many and such vivid traits of this complicated evil, in so short a compass
-During the 1830, influenced by the second Great Awakening, the temperance movement began to gain strength. Employed tactics of moral suasion and lobbying of state legislatures to
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The Civil War
The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union
The reason why they had the civil war was because the moral issue of slavery. It was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. -
Maine's Laws
Neal Dow helped craft the Maine liquor law while he was mayor of Portland, Maine
Maine's Laws was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States. The reason why the did this law was to forbid the sale of intoxicating liquor.
The law's wording included that the sale of all alcoholic beverages except for medicinal mechanical or manufacturing purposes was prohibited. Word of the law's passage quickly spread elsewhere in the nation twelve states -
US enters WWl
Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France.
Joined its allies-Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I.
The reason why the US entered was because Germany determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies
The causes of the US entry into WW1 included the Sinking of the passenger ship the Lusitania which was sunk by a German U-Boat. Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, and the US entry into WW1. -
Drug stores continued selling alcohol as “medicine"
The Volstead Act included a few interesting exceptions to the ban on distributing alcohol
Prescription for alcohol used during Prohibition. ... During Prohibition, the U.S. Treasury Department authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal alcohol.
-According to Prohibition historian Daniel Okrent, windfalls from legal alcohol sales helped the drug store chain Walgreens grow from around 20 locations to more than 500 during the 1920s.