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The American Temperance Society was formed in 1826 to ban the distilling of whiskey and in just 12 years they had over 1.5 million people as a part of this group and overr 8,000 groups.
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Carrie Nation is born. She will be a future activist for prohibition and the temperance movement. Her method was going into bar and smashing things with a hachet.
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Father Theobald Mathew started to tour the country and preach to especially Irish Americans about the temperance pledge.
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He ended his trip around the country in Novemeber of 1851. Pursuading thousands of people to join the movement.
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13 out of the 40 states had prohibition in effect. This would eventually lead to the 18th amendment.
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The national prohibtion party was founded in the year 1869.
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WCTU is organized. This was a group of women who were with the temperance movement.
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In 1895 it became a national organization and quickly rose to become the most powerful prohibition group in the country. Being better than its older competitors the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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On January 16, 1919 the 18th amendment was passed that made the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
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He was a mobster who on this date he committed the first liqour hijacking and eliminated his competition. (North Side Gang)
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Al Capone kills Dean O'Banion for running a liquor business against capone... didnt end very well.
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On January 18, 1928 3 men (Harry Fuller, Joseph Cagiando, and Joseph Fasso) were murdered for syealing Al Capones booze and liquor.
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Al Capone had his men kill off a rival gin runner. This may have shown is all these murders really worth banning alcohol?
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Alcohol is legal once again, gets rid of the 18th amendment.
