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Prohibition anti-Prohibition protest Prohibition Party A poster for the Prohibition Party, 1888.Prohibition, as the extreme wing of the temperance movement, is one of the hallowed reforms from the 1840s. As the wave of state prohibition laws passed in the 1850s began to be repealed, prohibition agitators began to organize formally; the Prohibition Party founded in 1869 and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of 1874 represented the two strategic approaches. When a second wave of state prohibition in the 1880s receded, both were superseded by the Anti-Saloon League, founded in 1893.
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Modified link of Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Prohibition and its Effects. Nov 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Digital History - Prohibition. Sep 29, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Pubmed Central - Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation. Jul 20, 2023
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Prohibition in Canada. Jun 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Prohibition and its Effects. Apr 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Prohibition. Jan 20, 2023
Changed the date the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified from “January 29, 1919” to “January 16, 1919.” May 10, 2021
Added image of prohibition protest in New York, N.Y. Jan 28, 2011
Media added. Dec 03, 2008
Added new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Prohibition. Jun 20, 2008
Added new Web site: University Of Manitoba - Prohibition. Jun 20, 2008
Media added. Oct 23, 2006
Article revised. Apr 07, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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