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They were a group of people that supported moral reforms and wanted to get rid of all vice and sin during the Progressive Movement. Their leader was Anthony Comstock. Two successes they had were the Comstock Law (made the distribution about Birth Control information illegal) and another law (unnamed?) making immoral things in the mail illegal.

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