Repeal Movement

As with the Temperance Movement, women were a key factor in the anti-prohibition campaign.  The Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform argued that the effects of prohibition included the unexpected consequences of the rise of a criminal class, the corruption of public officials, and a widespread disrespect for the rule of law, which represented a serious threat to America’s moral foundation and her homes and families.  Their efforts, and the federal government’s desire to enact an alcohol tax to assist with revenue during the Great Depression, led to the Twenty-First Amendment, which repealed Prohibition.