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There is widespread alcohol consumption in the Gilded age, affecting worker’s productivity, family stability, a person’s relationships, etc. This is a major problem in early 20th century America where America was practically tied to alcohol.

It is happening in houses and hurting families, and also places like saloons, where male political bosses made political decisions out of the reach of women, which is part of why the temperance movement was strongly and mostly led by women.

Today, teenagers across the country drink while their brains are not fully developed, leading to brain damage, as well as all the normal side effects of alcohol (1 in 6 teens binge drinks). Teen alcoholics are more likely to cause social problems, violence, and have suicidal thoughts.

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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was a major organizational advocate for prohibition, and led the charge against it.

Once Prohibition was passed, congressman Wayne Wheeler drafted the Volstead Act which enforced the amendment and congress passed it despite incumbent President Woodrow Wilson's veto with a 2/3 majority in both houses. It was left in place during the Republican presidencies of the 20's but was repealed once democrats reclaimed the presidency in 1933.

In the modern day, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was signed in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.

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In the progressive era, to solve the issue of alcohol usage, they passed the 18th Amendment, prohibition, and then the Volstead Act, enforcing it. It did not work. Prohibition was often enforced by police officers, many of whom were corrupt or drank themselves, the creation of illegal speakeasies and gang violence, and with the government's inability to regulate alcohol the practice of drinking became less safe while just as proliferating. Eventually the two were both repealed, the first constitutional amendment ever repealed.

Today, we no longer advocate prohibition as we have realized that it is a bad solution to the alcohol problem. Instead we have a national minimum drinking age law, and in school we have health classes where we are taught the negative effects of alcohol in an attempt to discourage young people from drinking.

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Today, we no longer advocate prohibition as we have realized that it is a bad solution to the alcohol problem for all the reasons listed in my prior sections. Instead we have a national minimum drinking age law, and in school we have health classes where we are taught the negative effects of alcohol in an attempt to discourage young people from drinking.

We have learned regulation, not prohibition, is the key. Banning only makes things worse. Our history is more developed and effects of potential solutions more easily seen.

There are still progressives today although compared to the progressive era there is a much stronger conservative presence. There have been many progressive reforms made however, from Teddy Roosevelt & Wilson, to FDR and Truman's New Deal and Fair Deal, to JFK's New Frontier, to LBJ's Great Society, to the reforms of the GHWB presidency and beyond.