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Period 7 - Temperance Period 7 - Temperance. 1  The temperance movement of the Antebellum Period was a stand against the drunkeness of society. The movement of the 19th century was even more influential than in the 20th century. Alcoholism was seen as the root of all evil, and caused the major problems of the young, blooming nation such as crime, poverty, immorality, and insanity.
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The Temperance Movement The temperance movement crested when the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (text) (Prohibition, 1919-33) was passed and ratified. The frank failure of Prohibition (repealed by the 21st Amendment) sealed the movement's fate as it lost steam.he temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.
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Temperance Believing that alcohol caused social ills, the temperance reform movement targeted alcohol consumption (about five gallons of alcohol per person in 1820). The temperance movement attempted to changed the quality of American's daily lives to improve the country.
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- Followers of the temperance movement strove for religious and moral perfection and for “salvation of the soul” through abstention from drinking, smoking, and other vices. The tenets of the movement included belief in the “beneficial power” of the “prophets” (leaders of temperance groups and sects).
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity ..he Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity ..
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AP US Review In the decade preceding the outbreak of the Civil War she took a prominent part in the anti-slavery and temperance movements in New York, organizing in 1852 the first woman's state temperance society in America, and in 1856 becoming the agent for New York state of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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- Most of the antebellum reform movements reflected primarily democratic ideals. This was true through the many democratic based reforms between 1825 and 1850. One powerful and widespread movement in early America is the fight for women's rights. This view of the women's role was very similar to that of black slaves.
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- A wide variety of reform movements developed to improve all aspects of society including diet, fashion, the care for the mentally ill, the treatment of prisoners, world peace, the rights of women, and the end to slavery. Temperance was at the center of most of these reform movements.
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The Pre-Civil War Era (1815â1850) The Rise of Social Reform. The revivalism that spread across the country during the antebellum era also gave rise to numerous social reform movements, which challenged Americans to improve themselves and their communities. Because revivalism and reform went hand in hand, many prominent reformers were women.
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- Temperance was also important because it connected to many other reform movements that sprang up in the country between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Many of these movements were motivated by a renewed interest in religion called the Second Great Awakening.
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Victorian dress reform The movement emerged in the Progressive Era along with calls for temperance, women's education, suffrage and moral purity. Dress reform called for emancipation from the dictates of fashion, expressed a desire to “cover the limbs as well as the torso adequately,” and promoted rational dress.
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AMH CHP 17 The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was: the Farmers Alliance. The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization:
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Temperance Movement and Prohibition Timeline The 19th and early 20th century saw considerable organizing for temperance or prohibition. Temperance usually refers to seeking to inspire individuals to moderate liquor use or abstain from drinking liquor. Prohibition usually refers to making it illegal to manufacture or sell alcohol.
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The Temperance Movement The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.he argument, with minor changes, has been applied against the efforts of the War on Drugs in the 20th century and invasive scanning at airports in the 21st. One of the temperance movement's characteristics was international cooperation.
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Temperance Reform 1 The temperance movement occurred in the mid 1800s. 2  The goal of the movement was to limit the heavy drinking that most Americans were doing. 3  Their drinking was excessive and had a negative effect on the economy. 4  It caused a decrease in work productivity and an increase in work accidents. 5  It also caused family issues.
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Documents Project The temperance movement in Oregon also had the backing of the National W.C.T.U. in its fight for woman suffrage. According to a March 1912 article in the Portland Evening Telegram, the campaign included the spread of literature and a lecture series.
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The Temperance Movement The lifespan of the temperance movement reached a second reform era, Progressivism. This period was characterized by maturing social and governmental efforts to reform society, whose roots lay in the 19th century.he argument, with minor changes, has been applied against the efforts of the War on Drugs in the 20th century and invasive scanning at airports in the 21st. One of the temperance movement's characteristics was international cooperation.
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- Home SparkNotes → History Study Guides → The Pre-Civil War Era (1815–1850) → Overview. The pre–Civil War years (1820–1860, or the “antebellum years”) were among the most chaotic in American history—a time of significant changes that took place as the United States came of age.
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- As with other early reform movements and charitable organizations, the movement's leadership shifted in the 1820s from conservative to evangelical ministers and lay people. By 1834 there were roughly 5,000 temperance societies in the country.f course, not all who supported temperance reform advocated total abstention, and not all who supported voluntary abstinence supported the legislation of morality. And there were opponents of the organized movement who supported self-regulated temperate consumption.
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- My study focuses on the democratization of the temperance movement in the. early 1840s, and the consequence of this democratization in the early 1850s: support. 12 Michael Rawson, The Nature of Water: Reform and the Antebellum Crusade for Municipal Water. in Boston, Environmental History 9, no. 3 (2004): 411.
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- Step back in time to an era of flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance workers, and real-life legends like Al Capone and Carrie Nation. Created by the National Constitution Center, American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is the first comprehensive exhibition about America’s most colorful and complex constitutional hiccup.
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The Second Great Awakening and the Age of Reform Camp meetings, or large religious gatherings, also gave the devout opportunities to practice their religion and for potential conversions of non-believers. In addition to a religious movement, other reform movements such as temperance, abolition, and women's rights also grew in antebellum America. The temperance movement encouraged people to abstain from consuming alcoholic drinks in order to preserve family order.
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Reform Movements of the 19th Century Inspired by the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, Americans started a number of social reform movements in the antebellum era, including the fight against alcohol and slavery and the fight for public schools, humane prisons and asylums, and women's rights.nspired by the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, Americans started a number of social reform movements in the antebellum era, including the fight against alcohol and slavery and the fight for public schools, humane prisons and asylums, and women's rights.
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- Introduction for Students. The Temperance Movement began to solve this growing problem. Beginning in the early 1800s the movement first tried to make people temperate in their drinking—that is to make them drink less.
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The Temperance Movement The Temperance Movement The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement's ranks were mostly filled by women who, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled drinking by many of their menfolk.