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Alcohol's Evils
Goal: Students will learn some of the arguments used by temperance groups to support a ban on alcohol.
Objectives:
1) Students will analyze a historic newspaper article from August 6, 1853.
2) Students will make observations about the content of the article in questions 1 and 2.
3) Students will use the context of the article to infer the purpose of the Maine Law.
4) Students will be able to describe the purpose of the Maine Law.
5) Students will conduct research about prohibitory liquor laws in
6) Students will make a prediction about the effects of these tragedies on the wives and children of the men involved.
7) Students will express their own opinions about whether or not a prohibitory liquor law would have prevented such tragedies.
Read the article “Arguments for the Maine Law” from the August 6, 1853
1) The article lists several incidents in which people were injured, killed, or otherwise disadvantaged. What was the cause of all of these incidents?
2) According to the article’s last paragraph, what is the solution to this problem, or how can other such incidents be prevented?
3) Based only upon your reading of this article, make a guess about what the purpose of the Maine Law was.
4) In actuality, the Maine Law was an 1851 law banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the state of
5) All of the incidents described in this article happened to men. How might the wives or children of the men discussed in the article have been affected by these tragedies?
6) Do you think that a law in
Newspaper article "Arguments for the Maine Law," Appleton Crescent, August 6, 1853
