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According to the standard paradigm, the temperance movement originated during the 1810s in the eastern towns of New England and New York, where propertied Federalists sought to reduce crime and pauperism by restraining the
AMERICAN. HISTORY. THROUGH. TEMPERANCE. Mather is anticipating the form that temperance activ-ity would take throughout the eighteenth century, when the so-called licensing movement would seek to ensure that drinking houses and the drink trade re-mained in the hands of a respectable elite.
We examine these frames as presented by supporters and opponents of the Temperance Movement in the United States, starting from the early 19th century and ending with the passage of the 18th Amendment, and evaluate how the Temperance movement ultimately, even if briefly,
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Temperance, the crusade against strong drink, was by far the largest reform movement of the early 1800s, and one of the most successful.
popularized and nationalized the temperance movement. In 1826 his American Temperance Society shifted the focus from the hopeless drunkard to the social drinker and replaced moderation with abstinence as the movement's goal.4 Fanning out to the West and South, Beecher's efforts swept up Methodists and Baptists, who had long deplored the
to trace the origin and growth of the temperance movement which preceded the era of turbulent agitation for national prohibition and, at the same time, to show some of the sentimentalism and religious fervor of that movement. It is sometimes claimed that the temperance movement had its beginning in the town of Moreau, Saratoga county,
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Jan 16, 2009 · On the emergence of temperance in the Western Reserve see Rohrer, James R., “Battling the Master Vice: The Evangelical War Against Intemperance in Ohio, 1800–1832,” M.A., The Ohio State University, 1985, 81–105. Google Scholar. The Origins of the Temperance Movement: a Reinterpretation - Volume 24 Issue 2.