Prohibition and Temperance
The movement to limit or stop the use of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
A vote where people decide directly on a law or issue.
What is a referendum?
A type of loan to the government or a company.
What is a bond?
To officially approve or agree to something.
What is to ratify?
A focus on owning things and wealth.
What is materialism?
A time when alcohol was banned in the U.S.
What was Prohibition?
Related to a city or town and its local government.
What is municipal?
When someone loses their home or land because they can’t pay their loans.
What is foreclosure?
A change made to improve something.
What is reform?
The minimum amount of money needed for basic needs.
What is the poverty line?
The illegal making, selling, or transporting of alcohol.
What is bootlegging?
A speech given by a leader when they officially start their job.
What is an inaugural address?
A large group of companies working together to control prices.
What is a trust?
To remove resources from the earth for industrial use.
What is extract?
To make something dirty or harmful.
What is contamination?
Did Kansas pass prohibition before or after the rest of the US?
When is before?
Laws created by the government.
What is a statute?
To build factories and businesses.
What is to industrialize?
The study of the rights and responsibilities of citizens and how government works.
What is civics?
Using money to help a business grow.
What is an investment?
She was a prominent figure in the temperance movement who became famous for using a hatchet to destroy saloons and liquor bottles.
Who was Carrie Nation?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A time when many people lose jobs and the economy is weak.
What is a depression?
Did women or black men get the right to vote first?
Who are black men?
The best way to prevent the spread of disease.
What is washing your hands?