What accounts for the success of the prohibition movement in the US during the era of progressive reform?(basically what was going on in the 9...

Of course, there is no way to know for sure why anything
like Prohibition happens.  We can only make informed
guesses.

I would argue that the movement for Prohibition
succeeded because of the rising power of the middle class and the increasing worries
that people had about immigrants.

The main push behind
Prohibition came from the middle class.  This class was booming during this time and was
behind many of the reforms of the Progressive Era.  The middle class was notably worried
about the behavior of immigrants.  They identified alcohol with immigrants, crime,
domestic abuse, and other bad things like that.  Because there were so many immigrants
coming to the US during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the middle class was quite
worried about them and their influence.  This became even more true after WWI since
alcohol was tied strongly to the German community (most brewers were German, for
example).

Thus, the rising power of the middle class and
the rising concern about immigrants made it possible for Prohibition to
succeed.