what was the goal of the prohibition movement
See also: Prohibition in the United States and List of Dry States. The Temperance movement in the United States was a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol and had a large influence on American politics and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.he last wave of temperance in the United States saw the rise of the Anti-Saloon League, which successfully pushed for National Prohibition from its enactment in 1920 to its repeal in 1933.