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Date	1869 - present
Areas Of Involvement	prohibition • temperance movement
Related People	Frances Willard • John Bidwell • Martha McClellan Brown • John Saint John • Neal Dow

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Prohibition Party

A poster for the Prohibition Party, 1888.Prohibition, as the extreme wing of the temperance movement, is one of the hallowed reforms from the 1840s. As the wave of state prohibition laws passed in the 1850s began to be repealed, prohibition agitators began to organize formally; the Prohibition Party founded in 1869 and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of 1874 represented the two strategic approaches. When a second wave of state prohibition in the 1880s receded, both were superseded by the Anti-Saloon League, founded in 1893.

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