History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0762 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Temperance
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The idea
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, founded in eighteen seventy-four, and the Anti-Saloon League campaigned to ban alcohol county by county and state by state.
In practice
Forty percent of counties dry by nineteen oh six, a dozen states by nineteen oh nine.
Where people slip
Their pressure produced the Eighteenth Amendment. Digital History traces the Anti-Saloon League's inspiration to the Populist movement.
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