Today in class we discussed our assigned blog topics. Things I learned today are that prohibition came about was because of all the public drunkenness. The women were the biggest ones to push prohibition. Some of the methods used were that Carrie Nation would ruin saloons. Many people would get really sick working like 15 hours a day and like 6 to 7 days a week. Some people didn't die right away though. The supreme court ruled that women couldn't work more than 10 hours. They thought that women were not capable of working as much as men. Then after a while it changed to that men could only work 10 hours a day also. They didn't get paid like anything. They might have gotten paid like 10 dollars a week maybe on a good week.I really think that it was a good idea for women to continue to push so hard towards prohibition.
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