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The American Temperance Society was the first U.S. social movement organization to mobilize massive and national support for a specific reform cause. Their objective was to become the national clearinghouse on the topic of temperance. [6] Within three years of its organization, ATS had spread across the country.
Temperance Tales (1844) The Two Sisters; or Life's Changes (anon.) (1844) Anna Milnor: The Young Lady Who Was Not Punctual; and Other Stories (1845) The Club Room; and Other Temperance Tales (1845) The Heiress: A Novel (1845) Madeline; or, A Daughter's Love, and Other Tales (1845) The Maiden: A Story for My Young Countrywomen (1845)
Richard Turner, a member of the Preston Temperance Society, is credited with using the existing slang word, "teetotally", for abstinence from all intoxicating liquors. [4] One anecdote describes a meeting of the society in 1833, at which Turner in giving a speech said, "I'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever."
The Washingtonian movement (Washingtonians, Washingtonian Temperance Society or Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) was a 19th-century temperance fellowship founded on Thursday, April 2, 1840, by six alcoholics (William K. Mitchell, John F. Hoss, David Anderson, George Steers, James McCurley, and Archibald Campbell) [1] at Chase's Tavern on Liberty Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1840, a group of artisans in Baltimore, Maryland [45] created their own temperance society that could appeal to hard-drinking men like themselves. Calling themselves the Washingtonians , they pledged complete abstinence, attempting to persuade others through their own experience with alcohol rather than relying on preaching and religious ...
Recitation books, embracing orations on Prohibition, Total Abstinence, Scientific Temperance, Anti-Narcotics, Franchise, Social Purity, and other topics, were published. Medals were designed with mottoes and emblems of the WCTU, and circulars setting forth the plans of this new system sent out to all the States in the Union.
Previous efforts of this kind had been promoted by the League. In May 1853, at a conference held in a London drawing room, a Ladies' Temperance Society was formed, which issued an address to the women of England, and was the means of establishing 22 societies, at Birmingham, Canterbury, Gloucester, Liverpool, Leeds, Peterborough, Reigate, Reading, Spalding, Worcester, and other places.