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American Temperance Society; Anti-Saloon League, which was renamed as the American Council on Alcohol Problems [1] (active) Alabama Citizens Action Program [1] (active) Arkansas Faith & Ethics Council [1] (active) Blue Ribbon Army or the Gospel Temperance Union; Catch-my-Pal; Christian Action Commission [1] (active)
About 1835, the "Cold Water Army" originated with Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, a Presbyterian minister of Pennsylvania, a noted temperance lecturer and the first lecturer in favor of Total Abstinence. He awakened a great interest in both parents and children, in the new idea of saving the young from an intemperate life.
The National Temperance Council stated that it represented 14-15 million American citizens and had a membership of "22 organizations, church boards, and commissions", with representatives from major Christian denominations. [2] Notable temperance organisations in the United States that held membership in the National Temperance and Prohibition ...
[2] Of the special committees appointed at the First Woman's National Temperance Convention, Wittenmyer reported that 10,000 copies of the Memorial to the United States Congress had been printed and distributed throughout the country. "They were speedily returned and the signatures counted until 40,000 were reached; but when the memorials were ...
A national temperance union called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed in Boston in 1826. [1] Shortly thereafter, a second national temperance union was organized called the American Temperance Society, which grew to 2,200 known societies in several U.S. states, including 800 in New England, 917 in the Middle Atlantic states, 339 in the South, and 158 in the Northwest.
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.
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States. [1]Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists ...
In the spring of 1874, the women who had been crusading in half a dozen States, notably in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, called a convention for consultation, which resulted in State Temperance Leagues. The name was, however, soon changed to “Union," the latter word better emphasizing the non-sectarian spirit of the Women's Crusade. [2]