Prohibition Timeline

By Noah Tezak
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    Large amount of alcohol consumed during this point

  • Woman's Crusade begins

    Eliza Thomson led women to sing hymns against alcohol and protest against saloons

  • Prohibition party formed

  • Frances Willard becomes head of the Woman's Temperance Union

  • Anti-Saloon League

    Reverend Howard Hyde Russell forms league

  • DC Mass March

    Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League march on Washington D.C. to demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • Pouring liquor down the sewer on a temperance crusade, Topeka, Kansas

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Period: to

    World War One

  • 18th Amendment is ratified

    This amendment banned the creation of Alcohol

  • 18th Amendment is ratified

    This amendment banned the import and production of Alcohol

  • Volstead Act passed

    An act passed to carry out what the 18th amendment was intended for

  • George Remus starts drug company to gain access to legal alcohol

  • Period: to

    Gangs begin to emerge

    gangs were formed that imported illegal alcohol, during this period crime rates spiked massively

  • Stock Market Crash

    Beginning of the Great Depression
  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • End of the Prohibition

    The 21st amendment is passed, repealing the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act