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A Victory for Temperance
Goal: Students will see the 1920 passing of the 18th Amendment as a victory for temperance groups in
Objectives:
1) Students will analyze a newspaper article from the Post-Crescent in 1920.
2) Students will be able to define the purpose of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
3) Students will make observations about the article in questions 2 and 3.
4) Students will be able to summarize the purpose of the 18th Amendment and describe how it was to be enforced.
5) Students will speculate reasons for supporting or opposing the 18th Amendment.
6) Students will write a page long essay in support of Prohibition using full sentences and correct grammar and proper expository form.
Read the January, 1920 Post-Crescent article entitled “Temperance Folk Celebrate Coming of Basic Dry Law.”
1) What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union? Look up the name of the organization in the Encyclopedia or research the group online or through your library.
2) For what reason is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) holding a celebration?
3) What activities will take place at the celebration?
4) Where will the celebration take place?
5) Read the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (below). What was the purpose of this amendment (See Article 1)?
6) Who has the power to enforce this amendment (See Article 2)?
7) Based upon your knowledge of the temperance movement, what reasons do you think the Women’s Christian Temperance Union gave for supporting Prohibition (the 18th Amendment)?
8) What might be some arguments against Prohibition?
9) Pretend that you are one of the participants in the essay contest at the W.C.T.U. celebration. Research the temperance movement and Prohibition and write a page-long essay on the following theme: “Prohibition Brings Good Results.”
Text of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
