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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 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
Carrie Nation continued her saloon destruction campaign in Kansas, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record. After she led a raid in Wichita, Kansas, Nation's husband joked that she should use a hatchet next time for maximum damage. Nation replied, "That is the most sensible thing you have said since I married you."
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 ...
The WCTU perceived alcohol as a cause and consequence of larger social problems rather than as a personal weakness or failing. The WCTU also advocated against tobacco. The American WCTU formed a "Department for the Overthrow of the Tobacco Habit" as early as 1885 and frequently published anti-tobacco articles in the 1880s.
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 ...
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.
Alcohol was often deemed by anti-alcoholics as the main cause of a failing society. The movement was led largely by the middle-class and was strongly backed by women. In fact, the temperance movement was often associated and interconnected with the women's rights movement. [2] Map of states prohibiting alcohol