The Prohibition of Alcohol (ME) Jade Kramer

            The Progressives believed that hard earned wages were mostly spent on alcohol, they also believed that it was the cause to sickness, abuse and that it caused the work that employees did to be less efficient. Progressives blamed alcohol for society’s problems; this created the temperance movement; which encouraged citizens to spend less money on alcohol. In the begging of the 20^th century there were temperance organizations in nearly every state. Over half the U.S had already had statues that prohibited alcohol by 1916. In 1919 the U.S constitution added a new amendment that prohibited the sale of alcohol.