Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry

<p>The prohibition movement began decades before the Civil War but did not gain considerable support in Texas until the late nineteenth century. While local option elections and calls for statewide prohibition in Texas failed, national prohibition efforts culminated in the instatement of the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1919 and the Volstead Act in October 1919. This thesis details the prohibition issue through an analysis of eight larger, better-funded Texas breweries who used evolving social and political conditions to combat prohibition and grow their companies, laying the foundation for the Texas brewing industry. This thesis and subsequent digital exhibit provide a better understand of prohibition and local option, while also explaining how the argument against prohibition was based upon business decisions rather than a desire to drink.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts - History

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Winthrop DeWitt, Shelby

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Perkey Beisel
• Dr. Scott Sosebee
• Dr. Court Carney

• Public History Commons
• Beer History
• Texas History
• Museum Exhibit Design
• Museum Management
• United States; Prohibition
• Cultural History
• History of Religion
• Other History
• Political History
• Public History
• Social History
• United States History
• Women's History

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/381

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.sfasu.edu:etds-1362