Anti-Saloon League

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The Anti-Saloon League was a powerful early 20th-century American pressure group that led the campaign for national Prohibition by lobbying for strict alcohol control laws.

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instanceOf political advocacy group
pressure group
temperance organization
activePeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
activity lobbying state legislatures
lobbying the United States Congress
publishing propaganda
voter mobilization
archivesAt Anti-Saloon League Museum in Westerville, Ohio
Westerville Public Library
basedIn Ohio
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1950
fieldOfWork alcohol law reform
temperance movement
founded 1893
foundedAs Anti-Saloon League self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ohio Anti-Saloon League
foundedBy Howard Hyde Russell
hasPart Anti-Saloon League self-linksurface differs
surface form: Anti-Saloon League of America
headquartersLocation Westerville, Ohio
ideology prohibitionism
temperance
influenced United States alcohol policy
temperance legislation in the United States
keyPerson Ernest Cherrington
Howard Hyde Russell
Wayne Wheeler
mainOrgan The American Issue
mergedInto Temperance League
movement Prohibition era in the United States
surface form: Prohibition movement in the United States
notableAchievement leading role in securing national Prohibition in the United States
notableWork campaign for the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
operatedIn multiple U.S. states
opposedBy brewing industry
distilling industry
wet politicians
opposedTo consumption of alcoholic beverages
manufacture of alcoholic beverages
sale of alcoholic beverages
originalHeadquartersLocation Oberlin, Ohio
parentOrganization Anti-Saloon League self-linksurface differs
surface form: Anti-Saloon League of America
publication The American Issue
The American Issue Weekly
purpose lobbying for strict alcohol control laws
promotion of national Prohibition in the United States
strategy nonpartisan support for dry candidates
single-issue political pressure
supported Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
National Prohibition Act
surface form: Volstead Act

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temperance movement hasNotableOrganization Anti-Saloon League
National Prohibition Act relatedTo Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League foundedAs Anti-Saloon League self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ohio Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League hasPart Anti-Saloon League self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Anti-Saloon League of America
Anti-Saloon League parentOrganization Anti-Saloon League self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Anti-Saloon League of America