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Preferred term
Eighteenth Amendment
Definition
- Driven by the ideals of Progressives and the morality-infused politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' social movements, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the Anti-Saloon League, and the Prohibition Party advocated for America's version of alcohol prohibition to be codified in the form of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives; Eighteenth Amendment]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Eighteenth_Amendment
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