The prohibitionists were social reform agitators who sought a major change in their society's customs. Social reformers have been a nearly constant presence in American society since the early 19th century. Accounts of many social reformers' campaigns, often deal with the violence inflicted upon reformers seeking change in society and the violence engaged in by some reformers to achieve their ends. Violent killing and even attempted killing, seems almost contagious to the history of social …showed first 75 words of 1444 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1444 total…that couldn't be effectively carried out. Notes 1. Paul Isaac, Prohibition and Politics: Turbulent Decades in Tennessee, 1885-1920. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1965 2. Robert L. Hampel, Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813- 1852. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982 3. Douglas Dobbins, Quarrytown. Westerville: American Issue Publishing, 1915 4. Ruth Bordin, Woman and Temperance. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981 5. Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995