Immigration and Backlash: New York, NY

It’s 1887 in New York, NY right now and I am currently witnessing prohibition, and I have met an interesting woman named Josephine Shaw Lowell.  She’s a widow who moved back to Staten Island and became leader of the Progressive Reform.  Even before that, she was Vice President of the Anti-Imperialist League.  There’s no end to her qualities!  Prohibition was very much supported, mainly by women.  This is because many of them would get beat by their husbands because they are drunk and don’t know what they’re doing and have no control over themselves.  The women feel that having prohibition take place would help them stay healthy with their husbands.