slave owners were the majority of men who fought for confederate army
What was the main reason the United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers after World War II?
-> Both had nuclear weapons that the rest of the world feared.
In the United States, it was mostly a rise in immigration that led to the call for the prohibition of alcohol, since many people believed that it was making people violent and unappealing. Women were at the forefront of this movement, which succeeded in prohibiting alcohol but failed at actually enforcing this ban, since people continued to drink anyway.