Propaganda supporting Prohibiton
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Propaganda against Prohibition
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Political propaganda played a large role in the popularity of Prohibition. At those events, songs were taught and sung to the tunes of popular music. “Prohibition sang its way into the Constitution.” (Prohibition, p.21.) Advertising on posters and signs used children in propaganda for and against prohibition. Anti-prohibitionists used children in their propaganda to ensure a future customer base, and the prohibitionists used the would-be future customers to appeal to people’s emotions and guilt about alcohol’s effect on children. By tying voting to guilt, they encouraged people to vote for Prohibition “for the children’s sake.” The propaganda eventually led to the ratification of the 18th Amendment by all but two states, Rhode Island and Connecticut, even though only three-fourths of the states, 36, were required to pass.