1. • Women’s Christian Temperance
Union (WCTU)
– Frances Willard
• Anti-Saloon League
• Ease poverty & disease
• Improve family life
• Productive economy
Temperance & Prohibition

2. • Banned
(prohibited)manufacture, sale, &
transportation of alcoholic beverages
18th Amendment (Prohibition)

3. Prohibition Increased Crime
• Backfired because
it led to organized
crime and
bootlegging.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59y65aEW_I