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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
By the turn of the 20th century, the Scientific Temperance Instruction movement directed by Hunt had proved to be highly successful. Virtually every state, the District of Columbia, and all United States possessions had strong legislation mandating that all students receive anti-alcohol education.
In fact, we can learn much from early 19th-century choices about alcohol, which spawned a mass movement that reshaped both taverns—the precursors of our modern bars, hotels, and restaurants ...
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."
The Maine Law (or "Maine Liquor Law"), passed on June 2, 1851 [1] in Maine, was the first [2] statutory implementation of the developing temperance movement in the United States. History [ edit ]
Clarence Wilson, former Milton resident, helped turn the Prohibition movement into an effective political force that culminated in the 18th Amendment.
The work is presented as a primary source in classes on American history to teach about the temperance movement. [23] One social studies teacher said he uses it because the progression of alcoholism depicted closely matches the message of anti-drug programing in schools such as D.A.R.E. Students have compared the simplistic " just say no ...