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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 lives.
An allegorical map on temperance, based on the notion of alcohol as a train ride to destruction, the "Black Valley Rail Road" by the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance, 1863. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, various factors contributed to an epidemic of alcoholism that went hand-in-hand with spousal abuse, family neglect, and ...
Temperance Map . Description: An early allegorical map of temperance. Date: 1838. Dimensions (cm, H x W) 31 x 38 ... Temperance movement in the United States;
The Band of Hope Union was founded in 1851. In the United States the movement had generally changed its name to Loyal Temperance Legion, though some locals continued using the Band of Hope name. In 1908 there were approximately 15,000 Bands of Hope and other temperance youth organizations with about 20,000 members.
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.
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.
Neal Dow (1804 – 1897), mayor of Portland, Maine, was known as the Napoleon of Temperance 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 .
Temperance movement in Wisconsin (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Temperance movement in the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.