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Prohibition Party. 1869-. US political party promoting Prohibition.
Anti-Saloon League. 1893 US Temperance organization. Prohibition.
Bootlegging. 1920-33. Illegal trafficking in alcohol during Prohibition.
Constitution, US. 1787. Effective 1789. Defines government, liberties, basic laws. Amendments I-X 1791 Bill of Rights. XIII 1865 Abolishes slavery. XVIII 1919 Prohibition. XIX 1920 Women suffrage. XXI 1933 Repeals Prohibition. XXVI 1971 Voting age 18.
Drugs, War on. 1971-. US prohibition and criminalization of recreational drug use. World’s highest incarceration rate.
Phillips, Wendell. 1811-84. US abolitionist, women’s suffrage, prohibition crusader.
Prohibition. 1920-33. US 18th Amendment. Alcoholic drinks illegal. Repealed by 21st. Temperance Movement.
Temperance Movement. 1808 Begun in NY by women and churches. 1874 WCTU. 1890 Carry Nation. 1893 Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition.
Volstead Act. 1919-33. Enforced US Prohibition.
Wilson, Woodrow. 1856-1924. US president 1913-21. Idealist. Advocated League of Nations. Prohibition. Women’s vote. Attempted to mediate WWI 1917.
Aberhart, William. 1878-1943. Canadian Social Credit advocate.
Abolitionists. 1774-1868. US anti-slavery party. Merged into Republicans. Radical Republicans.
African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.
Anti-Masonic Party. 1826. US party absorbed into Whigs 1838.
Attlee, Clement. 1883-1967. British Labour Prime Minister. 1945-51. National Health. Nationalization.
Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.
Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.
Bevan, Aneurin. 1897-1960. British Socialist MP 1929-60. Architect of National Health Service, 1948.
Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.
Blum, Léon. 1872-1950. French Socialist Prime Minister 1936-7. 40 hr. week.
Bolsheviks. (“Majority”) 1903-52. Revolutionary faction of Social Democratic Workers Party for dictatorship of Proletariat. =Communist. Mensheviks.
Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.
Brandt, Willy. 1913-92. Pragmatic Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74.
Branting, Karl. 1860-1925. Founder of Swedish Social Democratic Party, Prime Minister 1920-4.
Bryan, William Jennings. 1860-1925. US Democrat vs Gold Standard. Scopes prosecutor.