On this date in 1851, the anti-alcohol social reform movement known as the temperance movement scored its first major success when the legislature of a New England state became the initial U. S. government to ban the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages within its borders. Eventually, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution would ban alcoholic beverages within the entire country between 1919 and 1933 (when it was finally repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment). Which New England state achieved this social reform milestone?