In America, proto-Temperance was definitely already underway as far as back as the Whiskey Rebellion, as a meaningful faction of the political support for the whiskey tax was in religious reformists looking to impose a de factor 'sin tax'.

By the time Prohibition was passed in 1920, there'd been near a hundred years of activism behind it. Evangelism and religiously informed politics have been apart of American domestic politics for a very very long time, which shouldn't surprise as the place was a refuge for Christian sects deemed too strict or antagonistic in Europe.