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"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul." LINK

- Frances E. Willard

Frances E. Willard was elected president of the women's temperance movement in 1879. Frances had said this quote in a magazine about the women's temperance of 1883. In the image we see a protest for the temperance movement and just as Willard says temperance is a good way to separate what the alcohol wants us to think which are referred to the foul things we say and people being able to think freely without the abstinence of alcohol.

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"No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face."-Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation was a prominent member of the temperance movement opposing alcohol right before the advent of prohibition. She would go into bars and smash, yes smash, up alcohol with her hatchet causing a more violent revolution against alcohol which would further develop the push for prohibition.

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"After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."

- 18th Amendment

The 18th amendment finalized the law that transporting, buying, and making of alcohol is illegal. We see how much prohibition has grown since this was legalized in 1919. This was a response to all the reforms and protested. Women had a big part into this amendment because this is everything they were fighting for since men became abusive to women when under the influence.

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Message from Samuel Gompers to President Woodrow Wilson.

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Samuel Gompers letter on prohibition to Woodrow Wilson

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Samuel Gompers letter on prohibition to Woodrow Wilson

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"I feel it incumbent upon me to trespass upon your time so that you might in your own way use your good judgement and great powers to avert what I am fully convinced would be the greatest cause of dissension and dissent among our people, if the pending prohibition constitutional amendment were passed by congress and submitted for ratification." Letter from Samuel Gompers to Woodrow Wilson-Library of Congress

Samuel Gompers was against prohibition as he believed it went against labor. He believed that prohibition supported the reds, socialists and communists. Socialists believed that prohibition could help the government control the people from reckless and such behaviors by preventing alcohol. However, Gompers believed that if socialists got their way then there would be competition between unions which could inhibit the effectiveness of labor unions.

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Ida B. Wells on the myth of the drunk black man

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Ida B. Wells on the myth of the drunk black man

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"According to anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells’ investigations, that too was fear over fact: Most interracial sexual encounters were consensual and devoid of alcohol, but it is just another example of how the colonizer’s alcohol narrative justified white supremacy"-Politico

Ida B. Wells was an activist who wrote the red record which exposed the myth of the black rapists and the cruelty and unfairness of the vigilante lynching's. Alcohol was one of the arguments and myths many whites held against the blacks to justify the lynching's. Ida B. Wells did, however, support prohibition as the consequences for poor blacks drinking would be much more sever and could really do damage to their image and future possibilities for rights.

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When was the women's Christian temperance movement?

When was the 18 amendment legalized?

Why were middle to upper class Protestant-Christian white women the main activists in the Temperance movement?

Explain the significance that Carrie Nations attacks on saloons had on the progression of the temperance movement.

How did perspectives of people in the U.S concerning temperance and alcohol continue and change during the period 1870-1925.

What were some of the causes and effects we see from the women's suffrage during the progressive era to society now a days?

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"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."

- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Women are compared to being fragile and just objects that men can use in there chess game. The WCTU fought against this because men under the influence would abuse these women. Women stopped standing for this and started reforms. This pays a big part in the prohibition era since they helped with the 18th amendment of permantly not allowing alcohol to be sold publicly and set an image for a perfect christian male.

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"Prohibition was enacted to protect individuals and families from the “scourge of drunkenness.” However, it had unintended consequences including: a rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue."

- National Archives Cynthia Peterson 2013

This is the whole wrap up of the progressive Era which led to the Prohibition Era. During the Progressive era reforms grew more and more everyday. One big one was the temperance movement. The effects of this era was more illegal production of alcohol.

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The Progressive Era (Rihanna's "Umbrella" Parody) - @MrBettsClass

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"To prohibit intoxicating beverages, and to regulate the manufacture, production, use, and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and to insure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye and other lawful industries."-Direct Legislature of the Volstead Act

The Volstead act defined an alcoholic beverage as anything more than one half of one percent alcohol and sought to prohibit anything more. This was in order for society to have a more productive focus on other industries.

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"The Saloon Must Go,"

- Anti Saloon League Motto, Wayne Wheeler

The Anti Saloon League was a temperance movement during the prohibition era. Now known as The American Council on Addiction and Alcohol problems. This league was mostly men. This league was more on preserving the grain from the beer to use for food instead of beer. So in the illustration it shows an illustration of the league and the WCTU and there campaign against the producers and sellers of beer in Hawaii.