RELGST 0415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Temperance Movement, Protestantism, Prohibition Party
16 Feb 2017
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Alcohol was leading to: domestic abuse, poverty, vagrancy, social violence, prima behavior. 1874 women"s extreme temperance union (wctu) Anti-saloon league (more of a men"s movement: get workers sober trouble at home, trouble at work, church support heavily methodist, baptist and presbyterian behind this as well, wanted to represent churches and decent people. Anyone who has given up their slovenly alcoholic ways: rural movement, anti-catholic. They believed that the catholics were bringing their alcohol with them. Many catholics would join reform, but didn"t want to associate with protestant individuals: anti-immigrant. Many immigrants were catholic: very well-funded, politically savvy, target congress to pass laws against alcohol. 1916 - (drylaws: 2/3 of states had some alcohol laws. 1919: beginning of prohibition, roaring 20s . 1933: prohibition repealed, al capone the mob, organized crime, gangsters, prohibition was what made women turn to alcohol even more do. Fashionable, cool, not what you"re supposed to: still holes in this:
