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The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete 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
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 ...
Possibly because of its association with the abolitionist movement, the society was most successful in northern states. After a while, temperance groups increasingly pressed for the mandatory prohibition of alcohol rather than for voluntary abstinence. The American Temperance Society was the first U.S. social movement organization to mobilize ...
In the mid-1850s, temperance, anti-immigrant, and anti-Catholic sentiment fused to create the short-lived Know-Nothing Party. Simultaneously, some Americans argued that anti-alcohol laws violated ...
The Washingtonian movement (Washingtonians, Washingtonian Temperance Society or Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) was a 19th-century temperance fellowship founded on Thursday, April 2, 1840, by six alcoholics (William K. Mitchell, John F. Hoss, David Anderson, George Steers, James McCurley, and Archibald Campbell) [1] at Chase's Tavern on Liberty Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
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.
Clarence Wilson, former Milton resident, helped turn the Prohibition movement into an effective political force that culminated in the 18th Amendment. Meet the fiery Sussex County native who led ...
Prohibition in the United States: a History of the Prohibition Party, and of the Prohibition Movement. McGirr, Lisa (2016). The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. National Geographic Books. ISBN 9780393066951. OCLC 902661500. Pegram, Thomas R. (1998). Battling demon rum: The struggle for a dry America, 1800–1933.