THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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recent immigrants
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Women Christian Temperance Union
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people in the South
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Fundamentalist
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Detailed explanation-1: -Protestants, Progressives, and women all spearheaded the drive to institute Prohibition. Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in December 1933, repealed Prohibition.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Anti-Saloon League, with strong support from Protestants and other Christian denominations, spearheaded the drive for nationwide prohibition. In fact, the Anti-Saloon League was the most powerful political pressure group in US history-no other organization had ever managed to alter the nation’s Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Constitutional prohibition in the U.S. took place from 1920 to 1933 and was enacted ostensibly as a response to pre-existing social issues like domestic violence and child abandonment whose presumed cause was alcohol.
Detailed explanation-4: -Raskob, Jouett Shouse, Grayson M.P. Murphy, and James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. Its publicity campaign, begun in 1928, helped mobilize growing opposition to the 18th Amendment.