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'''Prohibition''' in [[United States of America|American]] parlance typically refers to the movement and body of law that prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of intoxicating [[liquor]] within, into, or from the [[United States of America]] from 1920 to 1933.  It did not make drinking or serving liquor illegal. It was one of the major reforms of the [[Progressive Era]], and was strongly supported by [[Christian socialists]] and [[Social Gospel|Social Gospellers]], who were mobilized by the [[Anti-Saloon League]].

'''Prohibition''' in [[United States of America|American]] parlance typically refers to the movement and body of law that prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of intoxicating [[liquor]] within, into, or from the [[United States of America]] from 1920 to 1933.  It did not make drinking or serving liquor illegal. It was one of the major reforms of the [[Progressive Era]], and was strongly supported by [[Christian socialists]] and [[Social Gospel|Social Gospellers]], who were mobilized by the [[Anti-Saloon League]].

Two ostensibly unrelated events facilitated Prohibition:  the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which established the federal income tax and thus reduced the dependency of the federal government on liquor taxes, and World War I, which turned Americans against Germany, which was associated with beer manufacturers.

Two ostensibly unrelated events facilitated Prohibition:  the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which established the federal income tax and thus reduced the dependency of the federal government on liquor taxes, and World War I, which turned Americans against Germany, which was associated with beer manufacturers.  While conservatives generally do not favor people consuming hard liquor, in the context of the movement that led up to the passage of the 18th amendment, the movement for prohibition was an integral part of [[Progressivism]].<ref>[https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/9027/11767 Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920. By James H. Timberlake]</ref>  After all, where the progressives took it is generally where conservatives do not want go go: namely, the use of government by one group of Americans against another group of Americans.

== History ==

== History ==