What role did Neal Dow play in regulating America's use of alcohol?

A. He passed a statewide prohibition law stating it was illegal to make or sell alcohol.

B. He was the first government official to ban alcohol for residents less than eighteen years

old.

C. He established the first statewide law banning the consumption of alcoholic beverages in public places.

D. He established a standard that bars and restaurants had to meet before they were allowed to serve alcohol.

A. He passed a statewide prohibition law stating it was illegal to make or sell alcohol. Neal S. Dow was the mayor of the city of Portland in Maine and was also a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was a highly controversial character who once ordered for a troop to fire on a crowd, where he killed one person, and then was tried for this. He then became a leader of the Temperance Movement, following his political career. The temperance movement is a movement against the consumption of alcohol, something he stood for the whole of his life.