Temperance reformers wanted to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcohol?

Answer 1

The reform movement that wanted to ban alcohol is known as Prohibition. It had success in the U.S. in the 1920s, with an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting alcohol, but the amendment was later appealed in 1933.

Answer 2

Manufacture, IMPORTATION, SALE, and CONSUMPTION.

Organizations opposed to alcohol consumption arose in the US began before the Civil War (1861-1865). They began by calling for voluntary abstinence but with the passage of time began to insist that no one be permitted to consume any alcohol by force of law. However, the Civil War diverted attention to more pressing matters and interest in the movement largely died.

Following the War, the movement for prohibition reemerged and began growing. A growing women's movement focusing on protection of the family, along with the strong support of many Protestant churches, propelled the movement forward beginning in the 1880s.

After that time a number of states adopted state-wide prohibition within their borders. However, it was World War I that made possible the passage of national Prohibition. The strong anti-German prejudice made brewers (who were generally of German origin) popular targets of hostility, the argument that alcohol beverage production diverted grain needed for the war effort, the lack of organization on the part of those who didn't support prohibition (the "wets"), the effective organization of prohibitionists (the drys), the strong support of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), political intimidation, and the effects of decades of temperance Propaganda made possible the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment establishing national Prohibition.