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The main goal of this movement is to ban the manufacture, selling, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. By 1826, when the American Temperance Society was founded, the movement had become national in scope. But before 1836, the main objective of the Tmperance Movement was dedicated to the moderation of drinking alcohol. The movement turned much more against alcohol and many of the followers wanted to ban alcohol all together. The movement finally got its wish in 1919 when the 18th amendment came into effect. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919. The followers of the Temperance Movement truly believed that if America made alcohol illegal, then the poverty rates and crime rates would go down. They thought this to be true because they all believed that alcohol made people have a quick temper and be careless, therefore people who drank would do more illegal and violent things. They also believed that the addiction of alcohol caused many people to fall below the poverty line and caused people to commit crimes in order to get the alcohol.
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