Nexus: The Great War's Grain Crisis and the Coming of Prohibition in America

Authors

Keith J. Muchowski, New York City College of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Blog Post

Publication Date

1-2-2016

Abstract

One of the most immediate reasons for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment was the Grain Crisis of the First World War. The shortage of this food staple enabled Temperance activists to advocate for limits on the brewing of beers and malt beverages. Herbert Hoover oversaw the Commission for Relief in Belgium during this period. Prohibition became law just after the Great War.

Comments

Military historian Mike Hanlon published this piece on the blog "Roads to the Great War."

Here is the url:

http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2016/01/nexus-great-wars-grain-crisis-and.html