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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.
Temperance movement in the United States (20 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Temperance movement by country" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Temperance Map . Description: An early allegorical map of temperance. ... This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas ...
Temperance movement by country (8 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Temperance movement" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
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 ...
The Band of Hope Union was founded in 1851. In the United States the movement had generally changed its name to Loyal Temperance Legion, though some locals continued using the Band of Hope name. In 1908 there were approximately 15,000 Bands of Hope and other temperance youth organizations with about 20,000 members.
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.
Palo Alto, California, was a temperance town begun by Mrs. Leland Stanford (1828–1905) Demorest, Georgia, was advertised in The Union Signal as a "city of refuge" from the problems of urban life. [1] Temperance, Michigan, was named by two of its earliest settlers, Lewis and Martha Ansted. The Ansteds wrote restrictions into the deeds for all ...