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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]
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This period produced various temperance organizations including the prohibitionist Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU, f. 1874) and the voluntarist Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America (CTAU, f. 1872). Prohibitionist temperance grew popular in the South as it embraced the "Southern" values of racial hierarchy, gender roles, and honor.
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For example, abolitionist organizations faced violent mobs that disrupted their meetings and threatened their members. In Congress, antislavery petitions were tabled (thanks to the infamous “gag ...
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"