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Sep 16, 2024 · Temperance movement, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. The earliest temperance organizations seem to have been those founded at Saratoga, New York, in 1808 and in Massachusetts in 1813.
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By the early 19th century excessive drinking was considered...
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In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, from 1920 to 1933.
The temperance movement in the United States began at a national level in the 1820s, having been popularized by evangelical temperance reformers and among the middle classes.
Nov 21, 2023 · The temperance movement was a social movement in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It finally found success on the federal level during the Progressive...
The temperance and prohibition movement—a social reform movement that pursued many approaches to limit or prohibit the use and/or sale of alcoholic beverages—is arguably the longest-running reform movement in US history, extending from the 1780s through the repeal of national prohibition in 1933.
By the early 19th century excessive drinking was considered a sufficient social problem that it led to the founding of temperance societies in Europe and the United States. The first such society was founded at Saratoga, N.Y., in 1808.
Jan 6, 2022 · During the first half of the 19 th century, as drunkenness and its social consequences increased, temperance societies formed in Great Britain and the United States. These societies were typically religious groups that sponsored lectures and marches, sang songs, and published tracts that warned about the destructive consequences of alcohol.
