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