Prohibition Research Paper Outline

Prohibition

Jacob Last
Ms. Faloon-Sullivan and Mr. Kershaw
U.S. History and English 302
05 November 2012 Prohibition
Thesis: The drive for prohibition was rooted in a long debate over alcohol extending back to the nineteenth century, and was successful because of the efforts of the Anti-Saloon

I. 19th century alcohol debate A. Availability B. False messages C. Impact of alcoholism II. Anti-Saloon League
The help of the Anti-Saloon League pushed wartime prohibition in another effort to establish National prohibition. The wartime prohibition act “passed after the war had ended, it should have signaled to the wets and drys the speed with which ratification might be realized” (Lamme 7). Without the U.S. entry into the war it’s unlikely that prohibition would have been passed. The war opened new ways for prohibition to be passed. The majority of the men that were in the war were drinkers. The Anti-Saloon League pushed the Volstead act to its limit. The war helped with giving men a reason to quit drinking. German brewers were scared that people would destroy their plants because of the propaganda that was being passed around. The war and its final push for national prohibition helped bring the Volstead act to full swing. The Scientific Temperance foundation was one of the Anti-Saloon Leagues biggest partner organizations. The partnership of the STF and the ASL began in June 1913, with the League holding a majority on the STF’s board. The Boston based STF was founded in 1906. The Boston STF was formed upon the death of Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt of the Women’s Christian Temperance Unions department of scientific temperance Instruction. Hunt had focused on bring temperance education into the classroom. Historian Margot Lamme stated that “ at the turn of the century one out of every two children at that time was
The drive for prohibition ended after 13 years. The result was a failing experiment that punished Americans. Ultimately Americans rejected the idea of prohibition and also downgraded the government. The impacts drove many people to quit drinking and to stop accosting with alcohol. The impact of the organized crime kept prohibition from taking full affect. The corruption in the United States has not come to a stop even with prohibition not in affect. The United states gained hundreds of thousands of dollars as
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Lerner, Michaela. "Going Dry." Humanities 32.5 (2011): 10. History Reference Center. Ebscohost Web. 11 Oct. 2012.
Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2011.