DUE NOW NEED ANSWER NKW How was the temperance movement initially different in South Carolina than in the
rest of the country?
The citizens of South Carolina rejected the idea of prohibition from its early
development; in other areas of the nation, prohibition was wholeheartedly
embraced.
Complete prohibition of the manufacture, use, and sale of alcohol occurred prior
to the Civil War in South Carolina; in the rest of the nation, prohibition was
adopted much later.
Dispensaries were used in other states to control access to alcoholic beverages;
in South Carolina, dispensaries were seen as a violation of the rights of the
individual.
In South Carolina, state control of the sale of alcohol was initially adopted as
opposed to complete prohibition; in the rest of the country, complete
prohibition was initially adopted state by state.