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| Anti-German sentiment was seen everywhere and Americans even publicly began denouncing the German language and their traditions. |
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| Americans, including Prohibitionists, portrayed Germans as betrayers for continuing to sink ships even after promising to not do so anymore. Prohibitionists utilized such negative images of the Germans to tell Americans that if they didn't vote "dry" then they would be supporting the Germans. |
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| Prohibitionists took Germany's continuous sinking of multiple ships as a way to spread even more Anti-German sentiment throughout America, hoping this would persuade people to stop buying alcohol from Germans. |
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| Prohibitionists took advantage of the Anti-German sentiment during World War I, telling people to choose between alcohol and being American. |
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| World War I sparked a deluge of Anti-German cartoons, allowing Prohibitionists to take advantage of the situation by claiming that Germans' evils came with their drinking habits. |
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