GCSE History

prohibition

because of pressure from religiuos groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance union and the Anti saloon league , who campaigned for many years for the government to ban alcohol in the USA . They were mainly country people who resented drunkness that they saw in the cities

• alcohol was a waste of grain
• alcohol was bad for American industry
• alcohol led to deaths on the road
• alcohol ruined families
• alcohol was made by Germans
• banning alcohol would make America into a better , more moral , country

could be used for food instead of being wasted making liquor

absenteeism from work so this reduced the country's industrial output . This made buissness men like Rockefeller support prohibition

mortor cars on the road , druken driving was becoming an increasing menance

they argued that wives and children suffered when husbands spent their wages on drink

because Germans were the enemies in W.W.1. so people should not make Germans rich by buying beer . This showed an anti-foreign element to the campaing .

many americans were very religious people , who became convinced that alcohol was the root of all social problems . it was believed that prohibition would bring in a new and moral age