into the First World War against Germany. Opposition from the beer industry mobilized 'wet' supporters from the wealthy Roman Catholic and German Lutheran communities, but the influence of these groups receded from 1917 following the entry of the U.S. After 1900, it was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. The movement was taken up by progressives in the Prohibition, Democratic and Republican parties, and gained a national grassroots base through the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Prohibition supporters, called 'drys', presented it as a battle for public morals and health. Many communities introduced alcohol bans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and enforcement of these new prohibition laws became a topic of debate. They aimed to heal what they saw as an ill society beset by alcohol-related problems such as alcoholism, family violence, and saloon-based political corruption.

Led by pietistic Protestants, prohibitionists first attempted to end the trade in alcoholic drinks during the 19th century.

The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and finally ended nationwide on Decemwith the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919, prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. 'Every Day Will Be Sunday When The Town Goes Dry' (1919)

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