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- The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement's ranks were mostly filled by women who, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled drinking by many of their menfolk.
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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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The first temperance society in Europe was established in...
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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.
Nov 21, 2023 · The temperance movement was a social movement in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its goal was to restrict or abolish the consumption of liquor and other...
Jan 6, 2022 · The Temperance Movement by Alice W. Campbell “Temperance” by Piero del Pollaiolo (1443-1496), Uffizi Gallery Photo: Public Domain. Prior to the 19th century, the word temperance connoted moderation and restraint in appetites and behavior. Representations of the Virtues frequently depicted Temperance as a woman pouring diluting water into a ...
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The half century after independence witnessed both a gradual change in attitudes toward alcoholic beverages and an increase in alcohol production and consumption. A pamphlet by the prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush entitled An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors on the Human Mind and Body,published in 1784, was an early voic...
By the late 1830s some temperance reformers were ready to abandon moral suasion (urging individuals to abstinence by personal choice) in favor of legal suasion (employing the coercion of law). In 1838 and 1839 temperance workers circulated petitions asking state legislatures to change license laws regulating liquor traffic. Some petitions sought to...
Blocker, Jack S., Jr. American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform.Boston: Twayne, 1989. Bordin, Ruth. Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873–1900.Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. Dannenbaum, Jed. Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati from the Washingtonian Revival to the WCTU.Urbana: University of ...
Oct 18, 2024 · The Temperance and Prohibition Movement in the United States was one of the most powerful and influential forces for social reform during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Oct 26, 2024 · The Temperance Address. Lincoln's Temperance Address is an ideal primary source for a humanities lesson about political rhetoric, or a US history lesson about social reform.
