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In 1826, the American Temperance Society was formed, and by the early 1830s, thousands of similar societies had sprouted across the country. Members originally pledged to shun only hard liquor. By 1836, however, leaders of the temperance movement, including Beecher, called for a more comprehensive approach.
The temperance movement and organizations had more than a million supporters who enthusiastically held rallies and distributed pamphlets on the evils of “demon rum.” By the 1860s, their efforts had indeed slowed, but certainly did not stop, the average American’s consumption of alcohol. Over the course of the nineteenth century, many towns and counties became “dry.” Perhaps the ...
The Temperance Movement. The country's first serious anti-alcohol movement grew out of a fervor for reform that swept the nation in the 1830s and 1840s. Many abolitionists fighting to rid the ...
3 Seventh Report of the American Temperance Society, Presented at the Meeting in Philadelphia, May, 1834 (Boston: Seth Biss, 1834 Google Scholar) 1.In light of the attention that historians have begun to pay to the pervasive influence of the Bible in American life, the absence of an analysis of its role in the temperance movement is all the more striking.
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 as poverty, child neglect, immorality and ...
alcoholic beverages have long sought to movement, known as Temperance, has. Williams writes, "One could justifiably claim the oldest movement in U.S. history."1 19th century, now known as the Prohibition temperance effort in American tradition. reform; however, as time progressed and the the focus shifted to legislative reform. What of women.
temperance movement. Courtesy of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Evanston, Ill. The word temperance means “moderation,” avoiding overindulgence and underindulgence—a balanced and self-disciplined way of dealing with one’s appetites. Since the early 19th century, however, temperance has been used to describe the total ...
