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This history break will explore the social movement that brought the 21st amendment, prohibition. Alcoholism rose in the latter half of the nineteenth century, which triggered a resurgence of the temperance movement. Women’s organizations such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), these women sought to cleanse not only their households of intoxicating beverages but society more broadly. The WCTU formed unions on every scale from international to local neighborhoods to convince people to give up alcohol in exchange for…