Prohibition - Source based.

... 20th October 2002 James Roberts Prohibition Coursework Question A Sources A and B agree that the ban was helped along by the First World War. Sources A says; "Among possible explanations we must include the bad influence of saloons, the wartime concern for preserving grain for food, feelings against the German-Americans who were important in the brewing and distilling, and the influence of the Anti-saloon League at a time when large numbers of men were absent in the armed forces." This quote is saying that the reason why Prohibition managed to become law was because the people who wouldn't support the ban were away involved in the war. This is exactly what this quote from source B is saying: "Before the First World War organisations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union had joined in a crusade against one of the great evils of the times - alcoholism. In 1927 a nation-wide campaign, led

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