Key Figures
She founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Who is Frances Willard?
The largest women’s group advocating for Prohibition, founded in 1874.
What is the WCTU?
This amendment established Prohibition in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The decade in which national Prohibition began.
What are the 1920s?
Illegal bars that flourished during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
This hatchet-carrying activist smashed saloons
Who is Carrie Nation?
Protestant-backed lobbying group that united various anti-alcohol forces
What is the ASL?(Anti-Saloon League)
This act enforced the 18th Amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
The year the 18th Amendment was ratified.
When is 1919?
Bootleggers often used these modified cars to outrun police.
What is "moonshine runners" or "rum runners"?
He was a prominent preacher advocating against alcohol in the early 1800's
Who is Lyman Beecher?
This group published temperance pledge cards for schoolchildren
What is the Band of Hope?
This amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This period saw saloons become major targets of reformers.
What is the Progressive Era?
This notorious gangster made millions from illegal alcohol.
Who is Al Capone?
This U.S. President supported Prohibition and signed the Volstead Act into law
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This religious group was strongly associated with early temperance campaigns.
Who are the Methodists?
This early 19th-century state was the first to pass a statewide prohibition law.
What is Maine?
This international event temporarily strengthened temperance support due to grain shortages.
What is World War I?
One unintended consequence of Prohibition was an increase in this type of police-dodging crime.
What is organized crime?
This African American temperance advocate and civil rights leader founded the National Association of Colored Women.
Who is Mary Church Terrell?
Global fraternal organization founded in 1851 in the US, promoting total abstinence from alcohol and drugs, peace, and brotherhood
What is the Good Templars?
This loophole in the Volstead Act allowed for alcohol consumption under specific conditions.
What is the medicinal and sacramental alcohol exception?
The name given to the period of Prohibition from 1920 to 1933.
What is "The Noble Experiment," the "Dry Decade," the "Volstead Act Era," (any of above)
Many Americans continued to drink using homemade alcohol called this.
What is moonshine?