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Pages in category "American temperance activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 391 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 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's health, personalities and family lives.
Temperance activists from New York (state) (1 C, 37 P) Temperance activists from North Carolina (1 C, 10 P) Temperance activists from North Dakota (5 P) O.
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 ...
People active for the Temperance movement in the Anglophone and Scandinavian countries in the 19th and early 20th century. See also parent Category:Anti-liquor activists for people outside the scope of Temperance movement.
In 1906, it was reported that Dillard sowed Georgia down with temperance information, and at each Convention, she was so well informed on the literature which was best adapted to the State needs that her table, laden with all sorts of leaflets, books, and periodicals bearing upon the temperance reform, became the most popular rendezvous with ...
Henrietta G. Moore (1844–1940) was an American Universalist minister and educator, active in the temperance, [1] and suffrage causes. For a number of years, she was engaged in educational work, and then took up the temperance crusade movement.