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Prohibition, 1919–33

Who wanted Prohibition and why did it end so quickly?

Cartoon of Carrie Nation in action with her hatchet.
Peter Newark

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Think about life in the USA during the era of expansion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the role of the ‘saloon’. Why did some people think alcohol was so damaging to society that it had to be prohibited?

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