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  2. Temperance movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. 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 ...

  3. Carrie Nation - Wikipedia

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    In April 1901, Nation went to Kansas City, Missouri, a city known for its wide opposition to the temperance movement, and smashed liquor in various bars on 12th Street in downtown Kansas City. [25] She was arrested, taken to court, and fined $500 (equivalent to $18,900 in 2024) although the judge suspended the fine under the condition that she ...

  4. Temperance movement - Wikipedia

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    The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism , and its leaders emphasize alcohol 's negative effects on people's health , personalities, and family lives.

  5. Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Eighteenth Amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the United States and at the time was generally considered a progressive amendment. [1] Founded in 1893 in Saratoga, New York, the Anti-Saloon League (ASL) started in 1906 a campaign to ban the sale of alcohol at the state level. Their speeches ...

  6. Prohibition Party - Wikipedia

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    Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol. 1– 5. Westerville, OH: American Issue Pub. Co. OCLC 241280199. Colvin, David Leigh (1926). Prohibition in the United States: a History of the Prohibition Party, and of the Prohibition Movement. McGirr, Lisa (2016). The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. National ...

  7. U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state

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    In post-Revolutionary America, such freedom gradually reduced due to religious sentiments (as embodied in the temperance movement) and a growing recognition in the medical community about the dangers of alcohol. [1] The more modern history is given in the table below.

  8. Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals

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    The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846. The Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals was a major organization in the American temperance movement which led to the introduction of prohibition in 1920. It was headed for many years by ...

  9. Alcohol laws of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Anheuser-Busch is the principal advocate of keeping Missouri's alcohol laws as lax as they are. [3] These laws have generally always been this way. During the height of the temperance movement in the late-19th century and early-20th century before nationwide prohibition, Missouri never implemented its own statewide prohibition. [4]