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American Temperance Society; Anti-Saloon League, which was renamed as the American Council on Alcohol Problems [1] (active) Alabama Citizens Action Program [1] (active) Arkansas Faith & Ethics Council [1] (active) Blue Ribbon Army or the Gospel Temperance Union; Catch-my-Pal; Christian Action Commission [1] (active)
The National Temperance Council was established in 1913 to coordinate the activities of numerous organizations in the temperance movement. [1] Its purpose included the promotion of alcohol education . [ 1 ]
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 ...
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 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 ...
In the spring of 1874, the women who had been crusading in half a dozen States, notably in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, called a convention for consultation, which resulted in State Temperance Leagues. The name was, however, soon changed to “Union," the latter word better emphasizing the non-sectarian spirit of the Women's Crusade. [2]
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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.