Help with outline for research paper.

I need help creating an outline for my research paper on the tempererance movement.?

• There is so much information about it. But if someone could help me creating an outline so that I can get some ideas down that would be great:)!

• Answer:

  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. National Prohibition of Alcohol in the US describes this subject in more detail. National Prohibition not only failed to prevent the consumption of alcohol, but led to the extensive production of dangerous unregulated and untaxed alcohol, the development of organized crime, increased violence, and massive political corruption. Although Prohibition was repealed in 1933, there are still hundreds of dry counties across the United States today. Amazingly, some people today insist that Prohibition was a success! Because Prohibition is now recognized by most people as having been a disastrous failure and currently lacks strong political support, modern prohibitionists are using a different approach to achieve their goal. Their tactic is to establish cultural rather than strictly legal prohibition by making alcohol beverages less socially acceptable and marginalizing those who drink, no matter how moderately. Like the anti-alcohol activists who preceded them, the neo-prohibitionists of today (often called reduction-of-consumptionists, neo-drys, or neo-Victorians) don’t distinguish between the use and the abuse of alcohol. Both should be reduced. Neo-prohibitionists tend to believe that: •The substance of alcohol is, in and of itself, the cause of all drinking problems. •The availability of alcohol causes people to drink. •The amount of alcohol consumed (rather than the speed with which it is consumed, the purpose for which it is consumed, the social environment in which it is consumed, etc.) determines the extent of drinking problems. •Alcohol education should focus on the problems that excessive alcohol consumption can cause and should promote abstinence. These beliefs lead neo-prohibitionists to call for such measures as: •Increasing taxes on alcohol beverages •Limiting or reducing the number of sales outlets •Limiting the alcohol content of drinks •Prohibiting or censoring alcohol advertising •Requiring warning messages with all alcohol advertisements •Expanding the warning labels on all alcohol beverage containers •Expanding the display of warning signs where alcohol is sold •Limiting the days or hours during which alcohol beverages can be sold •Increasing server liability for any problems that occur after alcohol consumption •Limiting the sale of alcohol beverages to people of specific ages •Decreasing the legal blood alcohol content level for driving vehicles or other activities •Eliminating the tax deductibility of alcohol beverages as a business expense.