"No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized in this Act... The word 'liquor' or the phrase 'intoxicating liquor' shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, and wine." — Volstead Act (National Prohibition Act), 1919
Support for Prohibition drew most heavily on a coalition of
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rural Protestant evangelicals, the WCTU, and Progressive reformers
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Wall Street financiers and the Republican old guard
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urban immigrant Catholics and labor unions
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Southern Democrats and Catholic immigrants
Explanation
The Anti-Saloon League, WCTU, and many Progressives framed alcohol as a source of poverty, domestic violence, and political corruption, drawing chiefly from rural evangelical Protestants.