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In the early 1800's the use of alcohol exploded. This was because Britain halted the American-British molasses-rum trade.

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Most or all consumers of alcohol at the time were men. Women would would stay home, take care of the house and kids, would become victims of domestic abuse due to the over consumption of alcohol, causing the consumers to not think properly.

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The Temperance Movement began to solve this problem. In the early 1800's it attempted to make people regulate their drinking. Women who were victims of domestic abuse due to alcohol attempted to prohibit alcohol and were successful in getting laws passed.

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National Women's Christian Temperance Movement

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National Women's Christian Temperance Movement

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The original purpose of the WCTU was to promote abstinence from alcohol, which they protested at local taverns. Their membership grew quickly, and the WCTU remains one of the oldest non-sectarian women’s groups in the US.

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The temperance law was passed throughout many states in the united states. 

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The temperance law was passed throughout many states in the united states. 

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revivalism swept the United States, leading to increased calls for temperance, as well as other “perfectionist” movements such as the abolitionist movement to end slavery. In 1838, the state of Massachusetts passed a temperance law banning the sale of spirits in less than 15-gallon quantities; though the law was repealed two years later, it set a precedent for such legislation. Maine passed the first state prohibition laws in 1846, followed by a stricter law in 1851. A number of other states had followed suit by the time the Civil War began in 1861.

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The higher prices of liquor meant that the poor would be more restricted during prohibition than the middle class and upper class Americans. 

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The higher prices of liquor meant that the poor would be more restricted during prohibition than the middle class and upper class Americans. 

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The high price of bootleg liquor meant that the nation’s working class and poor were far more restricted during Prohibition than middle or upper class Americans. Even as costs for law enforcement, jails and prisons spiraled upward, support for Prohibition was waning by the end of the 1920s. In addition, fundamentalist and nativist forces had gained more control over the temperance movement, alienating its more moderate members.

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Prohibition was enforced much more strongly in areas where the population was greater; rural towns were much more loosely in urban areas. 

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Prohibition was enforced much more strongly in areas where the population was greater; rural towns were much more loosely in urban areas. 

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Both federal and local government struggled to enforce Prohibition over the course of the 1920s. Enforcement was initially assigned to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and was later transferred to the Justice Department and the Bureau of Prohibition, or Prohibition Bureau. In general, Prohibition was enforced much more strongly in areas where the population was sympathetic to the legislation–mainly rural areas and small towns–and much more loosely in urban areas.

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Francis Willard, helped grow the WCTU into the largest women’s religious organization in the 19th century. She was known for her self-proclaimed “Do Everything” policy. She was concerned with temperance along with women’s rights, suffrage, and international social justice. She viewed alcoholics as mentally unstable and weak. She believed temperance could help improve the quality of life of individual alcoholics as well as their families and communities.

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Demon Rum was a term used by the supporters to make drinking sound terrible as a tactic to discourage trying and/or continuing to drink alcoholic Beverages

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Temperance is a word that describes an attempt to limit the sale/consumption of alcoholic beverages in an area