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The overal temperance movement was in hopes of ending the consumption, making, distribution, and sale of alcohol. Mainly this movement was led by women who were done with their husbands drunken behavior.
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The founder of Methodism; John Wesley, stated that drinking was a sin. This whole knew idea started the temperance movement.
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Alcohol was limited to 7 gallons of consumption per capita per year.
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Ministers in the Boston area started a society called the American Temperance Society, because they felt that drinking alcohol was a sin. Therefore they drove for an alcohol free society.
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The consumption of alcohol was then lowered once again from 7 gallons per capita per year, to 3 gallons.
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The Washington Temperance Society was named after the first president of the US. All the members were heavy drinkers who "took the pledge" to abstain from alcohol. This movement was known as the Washingtonian Movement.
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Main was the first state to pass a law prohibiting alcohol consumption.
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After the Civil War, a group known as the Prohibition Party came together in 1869. They wanted to end drinking as they saw nothing good that came out of it.
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded in Cleveland. Annie Wittenmyer was nominated as the president of the union, and their single goal was for a complete prohibition law.
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The Anti-Saloon League was made by men to further the influence the womens efforts.
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Carry Nation was a prohibition activist through the WCTU and vandalized saloons. She was dressed as a Methodist deaconess and destroyed all their furniture and liquor cases with an ax.
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The Anti-Saloon League brought the issue to congress and got them to pass a law banning all transportation, making, and sales of alcohol.
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The Volstead Act was passed which fully banned alcohol consumption, creating a dry nation. Woodrow Wilson originally vetoed this act but lost his veto with congress.
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The 18th amendment also known as the prohibition act came out of the temperance movement. This act completely ended any alcohol use, and reformed the country. Although this act didnt go over well with the public and had to be lifted.
