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This 4 page paper discusses the made in favor of prohibition as well as those against it, and in particular the events occurring in the years 1928-1935. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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examines some of the contemporary arguments that were given for and against prohibiting the sale and use of liquor. Discussion The 18th Amendment didnt come out of nowhere; advocates of
prohibition had been around since the founding of the nation and temperance movements built and receded in waves over time (Lacey, 2005). Prior to the passage of the 18th Amendment,
the last substantial drive for prohibition had occurred before the Civil War, but that conflict slowed it dramatically, and it didnt become a force in politics again until the late
19th century (Lacey, 2005). Prohibition had a great deal of support in rural America, which saw it as a way to clean up "the nations crime ... infested cities" (Gilgoff,
2005, p. 50). But the single greatest influence in the issue came from the Anti-Saloon League, which was founded at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1893 (Lacey, 2005). This organization
was strictly non-partisan and was devoted solely to enacting laws prohibiting alcohol; it has become the prototype of the "single-interest pressure group" (Lacey, 2005, p. 44). The League put its
support behind candidates who favored prohibition and campaigned against those who did not, ignoring all other issues (Lacey, 2005). This tactic enabled the League to place "enough legislators in office
that it controlled a bipartisan majority of more than two-thirds in each house of Congress by 1916" (Lacey, 2005, p. 45). The arguments presented by the League against alcohol usage
were much the same as those presented by other reformers, namely that liquor had a deleterious effect on "the nations health, morality, and economic welfare" (Lacey, 2005, p. 39). In
1920, legendary evangelist Billy Sunday delivered what amounted to a rant about the evils of drink, saying that a saloon is a "rat hole" in which a worker dumps his
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