ABSTRACT
From the 1870s to 1933 the control of intoxicating liquors, as they were then called, was a hot-button issue well beyond the extent to which it is debated today. Powerful single interest pressure groups such as the Anti-Saloon League, and later the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, wielded great influence both socially and politically. Alcoholic beverages dominated political debate; and their regulation tended to swing in wide oscillations from deregulation to prohibition. In time, Americans tired of the incensed debate and moved toward a more rational approach in declaring that true temperance came from a balance between control
Contents History of Alcohol Control in the U.S. .................................................................2 Control Given to States by the 21st Amendment ..................................................8 Seventy Plus Years of State Control .....................................................................11 References ...........................................................................................................15
