Log in desiree.cato310 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to desiree.cato310's post “Why did women and religio...” Why did women and religious groups want alcohol to be banned? • (4 votes) Johanna 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to Johanna's post “Many religious groups (es...” Many religious groups (especially Protestants) wanted alcohol to be banned because they felt it lead to moral depravity. As the article says, people often associated saloons with poor immigrants, among whom many were Irish Catholics. That would give the Protestants even more reason to discourage alcohol. For women, they had the same religious reasons, but alcoholism contributed to abuse, too. Imagine you're a woman in this time period with 8 kids and no way of providing for them because nobody wants to give a woman a job. Your husband drinks away all the family's money, then comes home drunk to beat you and the kids. You might want to ban alcohol, right? (30 votes) jcoccodrilli 2 years agoPosted 2 years ago. Direct link to jcoccodrilli's post “In many churches, wine is...” In many churches, wine is used to represent the blood of Christ. Since wine is an alcoholic beverage, would that mean that it was outlawed as well?! If so, then wouldn't there be some exception for wine or something? • (5 votes) Johanna 2 years agoPosted 2 years ago. Direct link to Johanna's post “Alcohol could be legally ...” Alcohol could be legally used for cosmetic, medical, and religious purposes even during the Prohibition. Nebiyu 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to Nebiyu's post “Is there a modern example...” Is there a modern example to compare to Prohibition, like the '80s "War on Drugs?" • (5 votes) Cora S. 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Cora S.'s post “The "War on Drugs" is kin...” The "War on Drugs" is kinda a modern example but it is not the same (4 votes) 2022jhenning 5 years agoPosted 5 years ago. Direct link to 2022jhenning's post “Were any alcoholic availa...” Were any alcoholic available during Prohibition that was not illegal. • (1 vote) Emily Kang 2 years agoPosted 2 years ago. Direct link to Emily Kang's post “Churches and religious fi...” Churches and religious figure could purchase alcohol without consequence. Because of freedom of religion, the government could not stop religious figures such as priests from buying wine for sacrament. As you could imagine, priests would buy legal alcohol and sell it illegally for a lot more. (1 vote) nhopple 2 years agoPosted 2 years ago. Direct link to nhopple's post “what are some examples of...” what are some examples of prohibition for a project • David Alexander 2 years agoPosted 2 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “You could find out how to...” You could find out how to make low-alcohol beer. (5 votes) jb268536 a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to jb268536's post “Why did they dump the bar...” Why did they dump the barrel out? • (2 votes) David Alexander a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “Since the product in the ...” Since the product in the barrel was illegal, it could not be seized and sold. Dumping it out was a way of punishing whoever owned the illegal contents. (5 votes) noah86400 a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to noah86400's post “is he a sinner?” is he a sinner? • (2 votes) Zev Oster 10 months agoPosted 10 months ago. Direct link to Zev Oster's post “In traditional Islam, alc...” In traditional Islam, alcohol is considered forbidden, as are all pig products. (4 votes) EMILY676 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to EMILY676's post “How did the gangster come...” How did the gangster come out? • (0 votes) David Alexander 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “When something is made i...” When something is made illegal, people who care little for the law will do it (citizens who continued to buy liquor). When there's money involved, criminals (people who smuggled liquor) will get involved. When there's a LOT of money (lots of citizens drank a lot of liquor), the criminals organize into groups (or gangs). (9 votes) s1683179 a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to s1683179's post “I wonder why alcohol was ...” I wonder why alcohol was created in the first place? • (3 votes) EllaH 10 months agoPosted 10 months ago. Direct link to EllaH's post “Manny people were just lo...” Manny people were just looking for a prouduct they can sell,and manny people were adicted to it afterwords Sorry about my spelling (3 votes) ejcottingham a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to ejcottingham's post “Progressives thought it w...” Progressives thought it would make society better in general. Some for religious reasons. I think slowing it down was good but just for economic reasons it was bad. Positive outcomes, a slightly healthier society, equal society too. Negative: Economy change that affects all people in some way. • (4 votes)Want to join the conversation?
You could run a survey of what different church groups did about communiion wine.
You could make a map, showing the many routes by which alcoholic beverages were brought into the US from Canada.
You could research what saloon owners did with their facilities. If you live in or near a city where some of the buildings are "pre-prohibition" and housed bars or saloons that had to close down, you could do a photography project on what they are now, or whatr buildings have replaced them.
When barley and other grains used for making beer were no longer valued for that purpose, what did the farmers do?
