The temperance movement used selective prohibition (drinking ages) as a stepping stone approach to their goal of outlawing all alcohol. ... What followed was a compromise with the lingering temperance movement and the modern drinking age was established. "The political failure of general Prohibition meant that American adults would increasingly focus justifications for alcohol policy less on the perils of drunkenness and more on the tenuous concept that adults can drink properly but youths cannot or should not." ... This loss of a powerful ally allowed the modern prohibitionist movement led by...

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Moreover, Blackwell was exposed early to the social reform movement and the practice of evangelical Christianity, which gave her strong morals and values that motivated her to fight for what she believed in (Kline 9). ... According to John Garraty, a specialist in American biographies, Samuel Blackwell was a "zealous champion of social reform, women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery" (Garraty 107). ... Blackwell believed it was "immoral to deny the medical profession to women without any reasonable justification" (Crovitz 400). ...

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