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In 1852 there was a split in the organization when a rival Independent Order of Good Templars was founded. These two later merged under the Independent Order of Good Templars name. [2] Templars of Honor and Temperance (active) – Founded in 1845 in New York and thriving today in Scandinavia as the Tempel Riddare Orden. [3]
Temperance was seen as a feminine, religious and moral duty, and when it was achieved, it was also seen as a way to gain familial and domestic security as well as salvation in a religious sense. [4]: 47 Indeed, scholar Ruth Bordin stated that the temperance movement was "the foremost example of American feminism". [107]
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 ...
To the Non-Partisan Temperance Women of the Nation: A little over nine months ago, the reasons for an uncompromised, unequivocal and untrammeled National organization of temperance women were given to the public at large, followed soon after by a rallying call, not only to the members of Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance unions and ...
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Pages in category "Temperance organizations in the United States" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
Temperance organizations in the United States (4 C, 40 P) W. Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Temperance organizations"
IOGT membership certificate, Michigan, 1868 [2] Small assembly building of the IOGT lodge in Vågå, Norway. Built 1908. The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia.