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Membership was open to men and women. There were 20,000 beneficiary members and 30,000 social members in the late 1890s. The overall organization was the Supreme Council which met biennially. State or territory organizations were called Grand Councils and local organizations were called Select Councils.
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 ...
[4]: 47 Indeed, scholar Ruth Bordin stated that the temperance movement was "the foremost example of American feminism". [107] Prominent women such as Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony were active in temperance and abolitionist movements in the 1840s. [4]: 47
A national temperance union called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed in Boston in 1826. [1] Shortly thereafter, a second national temperance union was organized called the American Temperance Society, which grew to 2,200 known societies in several U.S. states, including 800 in New England, 917 in the Middle Atlantic states, 339 in the South, and 158 in the Northwest.
Pages in category "Temperance organizations in the United States" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
The WCTU remains an internationally active organization. [35] In American culture, although "temperance norms have lost a great deal of their power" [28] and there are far fewer dry communities today than before ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, there is still at least one WCTU chapter in almost every U.S. state and in 36 other ...
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States. [1]Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists ...