Temperance Movement Vs Prohibition Movement

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On account of our discovery of fermentation, opponents to alcohol have attempted to eliminate its consumption for centuries. The movement better known as temperance movement or the prohibition movement, was widely supported, by religious and rural conservatives, urban progressives; men and women, sometimes working with each other occasionally working separately; wealthy business owners, which, believed that the consumption of alcoholic beverages lessened the work productivity; workers whom felt that the alcohol was used to deprive them of advances; while Anglo-Saxon’s feared blacks and blacks who thought alcohol was a device to limit their progress in society (Coker). Supporters of total abstinence of alcohol beverages have sought to eradicate

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