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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the temperance movement. Carrie Amelia Moore (Carrie Nation) is the most famous saloon buster.

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Frances Willard and Carrie Nation

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What two woman led the movement to make alcohol illegal?

who lead the movement to make alcohol illegal


What were two movements in the US that emerged during World War 1?

Both the Prohibition movement and the women's suffrage movement grew during World War 1. The former aimed to make alcohol illegal and the latter aimed to give women the right to vote.


Which two women led to make alcohol illegal?

Frances Willard & Carrie Nation


What where the women Christian temperance movement trying to change?

The Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WCT) was a group of women in the early 1900's attempting to make the consumption, sale, or making of alcohol illegal. It was founded by Carry Nation who was very anti-immigrant. At the time Irish were the number one immigrants in america bringing there drinking habits with them. Nation and her followers would walk into bars and saloons with an axe and completely destroy the whole place while reading verses from the bible. From 1900-1917, 1/2 of all US States prohibited alcohol. By 1920, 100% of all states adapted the 18th amendment making alcohol illegal. It would remain illegal until 1933 when it was made legal again by the 21st amendment.


What did congress make illegal in 18th amendment?

Alcohol.


Who was Frances willard?

Frances Willard lived from 1839-1898. She was very active in America's women's suffrage movement, trying to get women the right to vote and expanding their opportunities in society. But she is best known for her work in the temperance movement: she was the founder of the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union), an organization whose main goal was to ban alcohol. It was her belief that drinking was the cause of most of the social problems in the United States, and her organization actively campaigned to close saloons (as bars used to be called) and to make it illegal to drink alcoholic beverages. She was a major influence in the ultimate passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, making alcohol illegal-- the so-called Prohibition amendment.


Is moonshine illegal in Wisconsin?

People are allowed to make alcohol for their own consumption but not for sale. So yes moonshine is illegal to sell.


What passage did the temperance movement achieved its goals with?

To decrease social problemsApex


What did congress make illegal in amendment 18 and when was the amendment repealed?

Alcohol and the 21st amendment reversed this.


Has been shown to make it more likely that adolescents experiment with illegal drugs.?

Alcohol use.


Why was alcohol illegal in America?

Rural Protestants, through the Anti-Saloon League, started the movement on the basis that it was publicly immoral and unhealthy. Prohibition, which did not make private possession and consumption illegal, become unpopular by 1933 and was finally repealed December 1933.


What did congress make illegal in the 18th amendment?

Alcohol was banned during this time in the United States. Also referred to as "Prohibition".