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Unformatted text preview: gallons per capita with the help of Doctors. The doctors said that the alcohol was a physical poison and a moral poison. Many religious groups prohibited abuse of alcohol. Alcohol caused fights and domestic violence. It made families fall apart because the head of the family, the man, would come home drunk without any money or food. Prostitution and murder were a couple more of the sad things that were Mehmet Bayram APUSH March 15, 2007 caused by alcohol. If the government were able to lower the amount of alcohol consumed, the amount of crime would get lower. Alcohol caused many things, and aided only because it was something clean to drink. The American Temperance Society greatly aided in lowering the amount of alcohol drinking to less than half of what it was in some places....
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- Spring '06
- BilliamVech
- Government, AP US History, Federal government of the United States, American Temperance Society
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