Home Exhibition Tour Schedule Press Educator Resources Multimedia Step back in time to an era of flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance workers, and real-life legends like Al Capone and Carrie Nation. Created by the National Constitution Center, American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is th

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Skip to main content Temperance & Prohibition The Ohio State University Home Why Prohibition? Why Prohibition? Why did the United States have a prohibition movement, and enact prohibition? We offer some generalizations in answer to that question. Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce dr

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Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverage s that remained in place from to It was promoted by the dry crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties,