ABSTRACT
Carrie Nation was one of the leaders of the Temperance Movement. These were people who believed that banning the sale and consumption of alcohol would improve life in America. They explained that drunken fathers abused their children and wives, and that drinking alcohol led to corruption and law breaking. When America entered World War I in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson ordered a temporary wartime prohibition on alcohol in order to save the grain for producing food. The people of the Temperance Movement pushed even harder for this temporary prohibition to be made permanent. In 1919, the 19th amendment was ratified and the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors were banned in the United States. For 13 years, Carrie Nation’s Temperance Movement ruled America, but in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the 21st Amendment that repealed the prohibition of alcohol.
