An American History

THE WAR AT HOME ★^751

suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?” In
1920, the long struggle ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
barring states from using sex as a qualification for the suffrage. The United States
became the twenty- seventh country to allow women to vote.

Prohibition

The war gave a powerful impulse to other campaigns that had engaged the
energies of many women in the Progressive era. Ironically, efforts to stamp out
prostitution and protect soldiers from venereal disease led the government to
distribute birth- control information and devices— the very action for which
Margaret Sanger had recently been jailed, as noted in the previous chapter.
Prohibition, a movement inherited from the nineteenth century that had
gained new strength and militancy in Progressive America, finally achieved
national success during the war. Numerous impulses flowed into the renewed

How did the United States mobilize resources and public opinion for the war effort?

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PROHIBITION, 1915: COUNTIES AND STATES THAT

BANNED LIQUOR BEFORE THE EIGHTEENTH

AMENDMENT (RATIFIED 1919, REPEALED 1933)

In the early years of the twentieth century, many states and localities in the South and West banned
the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. (“Wet” counties allowed alcoholic beverages,
“dry” counties banned them.) Prohibition became national with the adoption of the Eighteenth
Amendment in 1919.