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The Pequot writer and minister William Apess (1798–1839) established the first formal Native American temperance society among the Maspee Indians on 11 October 1833. [30] Apess was elected president and forty-two Mashpee Indians signed up immediately. [31] Minutes of the first meeting on 14 November state:
In 1833, during a visit to the town of Mashpee, the largest Native American town in Massachusetts, Apess established the first formal Native American temperance society among the Maspee Indians on 11 October 1833. [12] Apess was elected president and forty-two Mashpee Indians signed up immediately. [13]
Their methods had little effect in implementing temperance, and drinking actually increased until after 1830; however, their methods of public abstinence pledges and meetings, as well as handing out pamphlets, were implemented by more lasting temperance societies such as the American Temperance Society. [4]: 38
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.
It includes American temperance activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Native American temperance activists" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 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 ...
Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, [1] Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, [2] [3] was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.
Lilah Denton Lindsey (October 21, 1860 – December 22, 1943) was a Native American philanthropist, civic leader, women's community organizer, temperance worker, and teacher. [1] She was the first Muscogee woman to earn a college degree.