Prohibiton

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transport, or sell alcoholic beverages in the United States. Lasting almost fourteen years, the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in December of 1933, when the Twenty-First Amendment was ratified under Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this short time, America underwent a great transformation due to the new law.
There were many causes for the Prohibition movement. One main cause was religious revivalism. Prohibition was a result of the Protestant communities action to assert its dominant position in the nation's culture. They believed that once this was achieved, the whole nation would be under the sway of Protestant moral values. Social reform was another reason Prohibition was supported. "Prohibition was an attempt to reassert what were considered traditional American values" in a time of high immigration -- to "force newer members of the population into a life-style that they were unwilling to accept" (Compton's Living, "Historical Background"). It was enacted because rural, small ...

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political group founded in 1869. Another was the Anti-Saloon League. Founded in 1893, it was the strongest organization to fight prohibition. Instead of putting candidates up for office as other groups did, the Anti-Saloon act worked for or against candidates throughout campaigns based on their view on the movement.
Politically, opposition to Prohibition became synonymous with the Democratic Party. Those for the amendment typically voted Republican. In 1928, Al Smith was nominated by the Democrats because he opposed the movement to ban alcohol. The party lost the election because of the large numbers of rural Americans voting against Smith. Ideas of prohibition was finally beginning to ...

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