The Domino Effect of the Second Great Awakening and the Rise of Prohibition

The prohibition was actually started in the second great awakening. This was not an A to B relationship. It was more of a domino effect. In the middle of the second great awakening the collective wives of various men decide to make their loser husbands stop drinking. After some time, they got a lot of people to swear on the lords name they would stop drinking. They even wanted the government to ban drinking too, so they started lobbying.

We all know the prohibition had a lot of crime but that might be correlation and not causation. But there was a lot of people taking a moral high ground because of their "purity" and they used that to control people's lives.