Question

Which of these organizations was largely responsible for prohibition laws that passed in many US states in the 1830s and 1840s? A) American Temperance Society B) American Medical Association C) American Prohibition Movement D) American Colonization Society

Answer 1

I would think Answer choice A due to it was the only responsible for prohibition laws the U.S. states in the 1830s and 1840s

Answer 2

The correct answer is A.

The temperance movement was a social movement positioned against the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. It highlighted the negative effect of alcohol on human health and family life. It sought for laws that prohibited alcohol extensively.

Their doctrines sucedeed somehow and led to enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and to the establishment of the Prohibition from 1920 to 1933.