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Questions
1. What was the difference between temperance and prohibition? What were the motives of early temperance advocates? Why did many Americans agitate for prohibition, rather than temperance in the late 19th century?
2. What were the details of the Maine Law of 1851? Why was it difficult to enforce? What was the fate of the most of the state prohibition laws of the mid-19th century?
3. What were the goals of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1873? How effective was it? Who was the most important leader of the WCTU? Why did the WCTU ultimately fade into the background in the campaign for Prohibition?
4. Who was Carrie Nation, and when and where did she live? Why does she remain notorious in the history of the prohibition movement in America?
5. What were the goals of the Anti-Saloon League, founded in 1893? Why was it more effective than previous prohibitionist organizations? What were the principal tactics of the ASL? Who was its most infamous leader?
6. What was at issue in the adulteration controversy of the early 20th century? How did America's brewers defend themselves against charges that they were deliberately adding dangerous substances to their beers?
7. How did passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution affect the arguments for and against Prohibition?
8. How effective was the Anti-Saloon League's campaign to bring about prohibition on the state level in the early 20th century? When did Oregon voters approve statewide prohibition, and when did it go into effect? By the end of 1916, how many states had dry laws?
9. How did the brewers of America respond to the prospects of Prohibition in the 1910s? Why were their efforts later judged to be a case of "too little, too late"? Why was the Anti-Saloon League much more adept than the brewers, and the brewers' allies, at persuading citizens and legislators to support its cause?
10. How did America's decision to declare war on Germany in April 1917 affect the arguments for and against Prohibition? How did the Food Control Bill contribute to the victory of dry forces?
11. How did anti-German propaganda and hysteria contribute to the passage of Prohibition? What was the German-American Alliance, and why did it become a target of the prohibitionists and the subject of an ineffective Senate investigation in September 1918?
12. What happened to Lilly Busch, the widow of Adolphus Busch, upon her return to the United States from Germany in June 1918? Why was this shameful episode in many ways symbolic of the abuses of power associated with the advocates of Prohibition?
13. When did the House and Senate approve passage of the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States? What was still necessary for the Eighteenth Amendment to be ratified? When was the Eighteenth Amendment finally ratified?
14. What were the details of "Wartime Prohibition," and what was it supposed to accomplish? What was ironic about the timing of "Wartime Prohibition"?
15. What were the details of the Volstead Act and when was it passed? Why did President Wilson veto the Volstead Act, and how did Congress react to his veto? When did the Volstead Act go into effect?