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  2. Sep 16, 2024 · The earliest European organizations were formed in Ireland; the movement began to make effective progress in 1829 with the formation of the Ulster Temperance Society. Thereafter, the movement spread throughout Ireland and to Great Britain.

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  3. The temperance movement started to wane in the 1930s, with prohibition being criticised as creating unhealthy drinking habits, [85] encouraging criminals and discouraging economic activity.

  4. The temperance movement in the United Kingdom was a social movement that campaigned against the recreational use and sale of alcohol, and promoted total abstinence (teetotalism). In the 19th century, high levels of alcohol consumption and drunkenness were seen by social reformers as a danger to society's wellbeing, leading to social issues such ...

  5. Jan 6, 2022 · The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in Ohio in November of 1874, and grew out of the “Woman’s Crusade” of the winter of 1873-1874. At a time when women had few opportunities for influence, or even to speak in public, the WCTU began to mobilize women to reform society.

  6. Jan 28, 2019 · The chronology of major events in the history of temperance and prohibition: major people and milestones as temperance turned to prohibition.

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    1773
    John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, ...
    1813
    Connecticut Society for the Reformation ...
    1813
    Massachusetts Society for the Suppression ...
    1820s
    The consumption of alcohol in the U.S.
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  7. 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...

  8. The first temperance society in Europe was established in Skibbereen, Ireland, in 1818. By 1829 the movement had progressed with the formation of the Ulster Temperance Society. Scotland and England soon had their own organizations.

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