Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The movement in favor of total prohibition of alcohol in the United States gradually emerged from the 19th-century temperance movement, which had urged moderation (and later complete abstinence) in the drinking of alcoholic beverages. Advocates believed criminal behavior could be linked to the consumption of alcohol.
Prohibition came to receive such strident support that, in the years before World War I, 26 states had passed "dry laws." In 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It prohibited the sale, manufacture, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in order to eliminate the consumption of alcohol by the general public.
Prohibition
