Anti-Saloon League

generation of historians is changing the way they look and write about an event. The Anti-Saloon League (ASL) is a popular topic for historian to write about, because of the League’s contribution to making prohibition legal. There were many ways that the League went about doing this including social and political reform on a local and national level. This paper will strive to look at the literature on the Anti-Saloon league, mostly focusing on monographs, and how the writing style and perspective about

followed it. The 235 page text describes how the Anti-Saloon League was determined to make prohibition possible and the struggles they had to overcome. As well as what directly followed once it was a reality. Clark analyzes and critiques Prohibition not as a historical moment, but as a movement. This book is very well researched and a thorough bibliography is

temperance movement relied heavily on the efforts put forth by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League. The WCTU lead thousands of women united against alcohol to make great pushes against alcoholism; they introduced an anti-alcohol education into schools, and led protests for laws regulating and banning alcohol. The Anti-Saloon League used “the saloon must go” as the war cry of their “moral crusade” against the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages

The National Prohibition Act of 1919 was the law that actually prohibited the purchase and consumption of alcohol. While the eighteenth amendment banned the transportation, sale, and manufacture of alcohol within the boundaries of the United States, the National Prohibition Act of 1919, also known as Volstead Act, actually started prohibition. The cause of prohibition was caused by the Temperance movement which tried to encourage people to not abuse alcohol. Many of the Temperance movement supporters

The Anti-saloon league museum is a standing testament of a period long gone. Located within the Westerville Ohio library, it houses important artifacts and memorabilia from the Prohibition era. At the height of its popularity, the league was a national organization which boasted branches across the United States.4. Along with various Christian organizations, the league was able to marshal resources that enabled it to bring the prohibition fight to congress and the senate. Tours and group presentations

information, they’ll grow up and will be able to react to hate crimes more justly. Essentially, hate crimes can be categorized into sections. There are different degrees, thus the Pyramid of Hate, as constructed by the Anti-Defamation League, shows in a simplified manner,

to say in that situation? A few hours later, I found out that they thought Jews were just devils in disguise. I still think about this situation today and I can’t help wonder whether or not it happens to others. I feel this form of discrimination or Anti-Semitism is still a major issue in

As America entered the Gilded Age, its urban population grew, nativists resisted minorities, government corruption was rampant, and immigrant populations increased substantially (Shi and Tindall 626-644). Government corruption was exemplified by the patronage system, under which loyal supporters of politicians were given government jobs (Shi and Tindall 641). Most of the immigrants from this period were from southern and eastern European countries, such as Russia, Poland, Greece, and Italy, and were

Carnegie. Twain views imperialism as contradictory to America’s core values. The Anti-Imperialist League uses democracy, or the concept of people holding the power, to assert, “that a government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.” Twain claims, “There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once captive's new freedom away from him.” Like the Anti-Imperialist League, Twain believes imperialism infringes upon the rights America claims to give individuals

American society. In 1849, the Daughters of Temperance, created by Susan B. Anthony, was formed. These few enterprising women referred to alcohol as “The Unclean Thing” and began one of the many quests for Prohibition. They strove to shut down saloons or at least regulate their hours, closing on Sundays, the day of rest, in order to protect their families and their finances from the horrors of men under the influence.6 However, this proved to be a difficult endeavor because by 1875, one third