In the 1800s, if you did not drink alcohol you were looked down upon with suspicion. The average amount of consumption for one man in a year would be five gallons. Post Civil War and in the Gilded Age is when people started to look down upon alcohol and feel the need to outlaw it. Drunken husbands were abusing their wives and children, the crime rate went up, and prostitution started. While World War I was going on, they used slogans saying that "Prohibition was helping the soldiers". Prohibition was finally passed as the 18th amendment in 1917 because everyone thought that all of the bad that was happening in the world was due to alcohol. In this political cartoon, they state that alcohol is a "Hun rule association". Being apart of the Hun is a negative connotation because they were barbarous and destructive people.
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