For other uses, see Collapsed lung (disambiguation). A pneumothorax is an abnormal collection of air in the pleural space that causes an uncoupling of the lung from the chest wall. Symptoms typically include sudden onset of sharp, one sided, chest pain and shortness of breath.
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.
But the WCTU's ultimate goal, a prohibition amendment to the constitution, still seemed impossibly out of reach. It would take the emergence of a new organization, the Anti-Saloon League, for the drys' dream to enter the realm of the possible.heir organization, the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), became a force to be reckoned with, their cause enhanced by alliance with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women battling for the vote.