Temperance
Movement
Kieren Billig, Britney
Coleman, Diego Gualtieri,
and Meghan Walsh
What is Temperance?
• Temperance is defined as abstinence from alcohol.
• The temperance movement began to take effect on government in the
1820s
• It was created in an effort to stop the sale and consumption of alcohol
• Resulted in bootlegging
• Bootlegging - smuggling of alcohol into the U.S.
Who is Lyman Beecher?
• Presbyterian Minister
• Lived from October 12th,1775-January 10th,1863
• Founded American Temperance Society (ATS) with other Boston
Ministers
• Therefore a supporter of temperance
American Temperance Society(ATS)
• Established February 13th, 1826 in Boston Massachusetts by
ministers of Boston
• After 5 years it had spread throughout the U.S. with over
170,000 members and 2,200 chapters of support
• All supported by people who opposed the consumption of
alcohol
• Pushed so much resulting in acts such as Massachusetts
prohibiting sale of alcohol in amounts less than 15 gallons (1838)
Temperance Legislation
• The temperance movement is a social movement against the
consumption of alcoholic beverages
• The people ( mainly women) blamed all the problems on alcohol
• 1830-1840
• Movement was encouraged by the churches
T.S Arthur
• He was a famous author in the 19th
century
• His famous novel about temperance is
Ten Nights in a Bar Room and What I
Saw (1854)
• His novel demonized alcohol and helped
pushed the temperance movement in
the right direction
Neal Dow & the Maine Laws
• Neal Dow was known as the “Father of Prohibition” and
“Napoleon of Temperance”
• Mayor of Portland, Maine
• Supported the Maine Law of 1851, which prohibited the
manufacture and sale of liquor
• The Maine Law was the first legislature to try and put
prohibition into effect
Washingtonians
• Focused on the individual alcoholic rather than society's relationship with alcohol
• Founded by six alcoholics
•
William Mitchell
•
David Hoss
•
Charles Andersen
•
George Steer
•
Bill M’Curdy
•
Tom Campbell
“Cold Water Army”
• Expression used to describe the action of
taking the pledge to no longer drink alcohol
• Was a children's temperance group
• Many songs were sung to bring people over to
the cause, and to describe the roles males and
females had in the movement