Study sources C and D Were the artists of these two posters for or against Prohibition?

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A) Study sources A and B

How far do these accounts agree about Prohibition?

Both of these sources agree with one another in some sort. They both agree that prohibition had caused a massive criminal boom. They also agree that the anti-saloon league had an influence on getting the amendment pass to stop the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor.

Both of the accounts agree about prohibition but one is judgemental and biased and talks about on reason, while that other account is not biased and gives 5 points to prove its point. Source A is the one that is not biased. It agrees about prohibition but also disagrees. Source B on the other hand is biased and only gives one point to prove its point which is that alcohol is bad. But it is also not biased because it was the anti-saloon league that put the ideas in peoples head that “Grain needed to be preserved for food” or that “feeling against the Germans Americans who were important in the brewing and distilling”. The last quote if not true as the Americans were at war with the Germans and wound not have great feeling about them. Both sources are secondary sources. Source A talks about what thing made people want alcohol. It also talks about what happened due to prohibition. Source B talks about alcohol being “the great evil of the time” this proves that source B is with the idea of prohibition. Both of the sources agree that prohibition brought a massive criminal boom. They also agree that the saloons and the war time effort had a great impact on the amount people drink. Before prohibition drinking was a normal routine for men that worked, so when prohibition started it went against “the daily customs, habits, and desires of so many Americans” this meant that so many Americans did not get what they wanted. Both of the sources are from after prohibition this makes them more reliable.

In conclusion, both sources agree with one another why the amendment was sighed as the both agree that prohibition caused modern histories biggest criminal boom. They also agree that the anti-saloon league had a lot to do with getting the amendment singed.    

B) Study sources C and D

Were the artists of these two posters for or against Prohibition?

Source C is a cartoon by the WCTU “the women’s Christians temperance union”. It shows a middle classed man handing over his weeks wages to a man who has his hair waxed and looks quite well off for some alcohol. Below is a bubble that shows a women and her children looking very depresses and unhappy. On the floor is a letter saying “evection due to unpaid rent” meaning that they have to leave to house as they do not have enough to pay the rent. This is trying to tell the men that they are wasting all of their hard earned money on something that they don’t need to. This is trying to make the men feel that because they are wasting all of their money on alcohol they are not being able to pay the bill and their families are suffering. Also this poster is trying to make the women scared that this is what they might turn out to be if their husbands keep on drinking. So if the women are scared they might do something about it.

Source D is also by the WCTU. You can see that there is a girl and a small child. They are standing outside a saloon. The title is “daddies in there”. And under the picture it says, “So are our shoes and cloths and stockings and food are in there too, and they’ll never come out”. This is saying that because the men are wasting all of their money on alcohol they won’t have any money left to buy their kids. This is also trying to make the men feel bad that because they are wasting their money and making their kids suffer. Behind the saloon doors it is dark and gives a sense of a scary dark place where once somebody goes they never return or return with nothing.

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In conclusion, both of the artists are for prohibition and want men to stop drinking by emotionally blackmailing them. Also from the beginning of prohibition, the WCTU has been for prohibition.

C) Study sources E and F

Which of these sources is more reliable as evidence about Prohibition?

Reliable means which one somebody can trust. This could be a source or a person.

Source E is quite a reliable source. This is because it is from a letter. ...

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