Question

You are from a wealthy Protestant family, involved in manufacturing. Your family has been in the United States for several generations. You would like to see limits or an outright ban on alcohol consumption. To which political party do you belong in the late 1800's?

Answer 1

Answer:

The person in this example belonged to the Republican Party.

Explanation:

Since its founding, the Republican Party has been a faithful representative of the Protestant traditions of the northern United States, with great representation in New England and the nation's most traditional, wealthy, and progressive cities (the latter condition was gradually lost from 1932, when the Republican Party began to turn towards conservatism, exchanging positions with the Democratic Party).

Furthermore, this party was one of the promoters of the Temperance Movement, whose final objective was the prohibition of alcohol consumption in the American territory. In fact, the Republican Party was the main promoter of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, which were the norms that implemented the Prohibition between 1920 and 1933.